[VoodooJuJu]

Foregoing perfectionism, elitism, and fashion in favor of code that Just Works. Functional is nice, concurrent is a nice, sometimes necessary transformation, "compression-oriented" sounds cringe and complicated-pilled (but I'm sure it's nice). But I'm not here for nice things, I'm here for profitable things, and profitable things need to Just Work. They don't need to be functional, or algorithmically perfect, or nerdically sound.

Procedural is fine and simple and it works. You can refactor later if you have the time and money.

Related listening/watching: Jonathan Blow.

[mejutoco]

Let me play devils advocate here for a second.

I have seen a lot of videos of Jonathan Blow. IIRC he created his own programming language to code in. That could be interpreted as pretty "nerdically sound" and "perfectionist" by many.

My point is, I agree with what you said in spirit, but the way you phrased it could be used to justify spaguetti code, too much technical debt and, ironically, fashion-based decisions (we need to just make it work, lets choose x).