Elixir with Phoenix and Liveview.
Unscientific poll with possibly a biased sample: more people find functional easier to work with. But telling, the difference is more pronounced among bootcampers and informally educated programmers than formally educated programmers https://twitter.com/DNAutics/status/1459348334007787526.
Not to mention that Elixir is basically "mostly functional but you don't have to faff around with monads or anything to do imperative".
"Most people are more comfortable with imperative languages"