Instead of the declarative/imperative paradigm and the ongoing shift to more functional flavoured languages and more abstractions crammed under the hood, I prefer instead multi-paradigm languages like JS to be the languages of the future.

Multi-paradigs languages, if done right, combine the best of two imperative & declarative worlds beside they're very friendly to beginners and they don't have this intimidating quality that other "pure" languages like Haskell have.

Also, procedural coding is easy to do and carries low mental overhead in writing and not every programming problem has be modeled in functional terms or worldview to be solved. Sometimes, it's economical and efficient just to get the work done in two lines of code without going through all those functional hoops just to capture a field value in some form.