> You just get such a small subset of the usual advantages of FP

Yeah but you're using that small subset in 90% of your code.

Look, this is not a thing to worry about in elixir:

    def p(my_array):
      do_something_with_this_array(my_array)
      return my_array

what is my array? I don't know. It could be anything. The company I work for just hired a sloppy python programmer that I don't want anywhere near my code, and you know what, if we change a section of our code to Elixir I am way more willing to have him work on our team.