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Having a language that generates proper errors, does not try to hold your hand incorrectly and instead tells you you are wrong is always better.

Haskell is one of the best in the world in this. But it also happens to be incredibly complex and also weird in it's syntax, to the point it does make code fringe and unreadable.

There is a real difference here - a language that can help you fact check your logic and reason that you are accessing a potentially null value in this context can be better if it's drawbacks don't outweight it.

Elixir isn't static so it doesn't do this but it does blow up a lot compared to other dynamic languages. It's abstraction of proccesses and threads and what not, does actually make your code more portable and more modifyable. It offers a specific paradigm for programming that works great for multiple proccesses and the whole language is built around it. So if you are going to be using that paradigm anyway it would be a better choice.

It's also just pretty how it fits together.