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Author here: I totally agree with what you wrote and I am taking it as a compliment.

Isn’t that the point? We have lost our way a bit and forgotten some of the things learned in the past.

Now we need reminders, and how to apply forgotten thinking with our modern tools and libraries.

That's exactly what I had in mind when I wrote the article. Thank you for formulating it in such a clear way.

What, you’re not persuaded that the concept of immutability popped into existence in the late 2000s with the appearance of Clojure?