With that said, might it also be possible that there could be some drawbacks? Having worked in and with Clojure, I found the ecosystem incredibly immature. It's somewhere beyond arrogant - reckless comes to mind - for most engineers to do all their own plumbing for a web service. The odds that they'll manage to design someone easily long-term maintainable are slim. The chances of authorization, authentication, potential SQL injection, and a thousand other security things being handled well is effectively none - the Clojure ecosystem often seems wildly ignorant of such things. The core philosophy of just composing the libraries you need with Ring means that anything you don't actively think of will be likely entirely neglected. This is a dangerous way to ship code that will be facing the real internet. Clojure requires you to fit absolutely every aspect of everything you're doing into your head and be handled by you, because nothing is going to do it for you. The lovely magical LEGO feeling is, sadly, a lie.
This stands in stark contrast to the level of consideration around maintenance and security that has gone into a modern, mature framework. Or a modern language where SAST is an option.
Doing low-level stuff feels absolutely amazing! The sense of control, of having your hands in the guts and the ability to do what you need without wasting time on bullshit magic, is heady and glorious. It's just perhaps worth considering that that magic can sometimes be incredibly valuable, well worth the tradeoff against the feeling of freedom.