Funnyduck99 is probably mocking all the people that go into HN posts about Clojure to complain about how their team of non-Clojure programmers went to work on a Clojure project and it was a bad experience.
No I genuinely don't like clojure because I just finished my first clojure class, it was also my first functional language and it was online and i am bad at learning online so thats why.
I hope you get an opportunity to explore it (FP, whether Clojure or otherwise) in a more conducive environment. It sounds like this wasn’t the best learning environment for you, and that’s totally valid, but there’s a lot of good stuff to learn if you’re in an environment that suits you.
LPT: While learning Clojure, the following (almost always true) mental-model help me massively at "getting" Clojure.
"It's Maps All the Day Down"
Spend a lot of time, just learning how you (CRUD) map contents.
There will be enough time to tackle the other cases/tech (atoms, protocols etc) but until you get good at maps don't get bogged down by the other cool stuff.
In reality - its actually Trees all the way down. But, because you don't have proper structures in Clojure, one uses Maps when one should actually be using Trees.