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Your points are not 'wrong' but I think you are being overly broad in the conclusion you are drawing.

Imperative programming is the dominant programming model that 99.99% of all real world code for the last 60 years has been programmed in. It very well may be due to be replaced, but certainly cant just be hand-waved away

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50 years ago 99.9% of computer programs were written in completely imperative assembly language programs, such that even arithmetic involved statements and temporary mutable variables. Fortran was a more mathematical higher-level language with boolean and arithmetic expressions. Functional programming just continues this trend, resulting in more mathematical, higher-level declarative languages, which as far as I am concerned, makes them more suitable for modelling real world business problems.

Turing has destroy everything what Alonzo Church did ;-)

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