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The same argument was made recently about the reduce function: it's a known pattern for some and a hard to understand trick for others.

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Yes, and you get used to reduce. map, filter and reduce were hard for me to follow… until I used them two or three times and now I understand them easily and they naturally come to my mind when I need to solve a problem which they can help solving.

They are good tools (especially in codebases shared with people who are allergic to loop statements!)

Agreed for map, filter etc. but reduce is the exception. There has been a fad of overusing it, until that article popped up which called it out.

I "got" reduce not long ago. It's occasionally handy, and it makes sense, but sure, it should not be overused. It is the most complicated between the three.

A good old loop in code bases that are not afraid of them are totally fine and probably clearer in many cases.

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