> In my experience the Clojure community is pretty tone-deaf when it comes to critisim.

Its quite frustrating actually. The people who are likely to be greatest advocates of the language (its a new-age Lisp!) are likely to be vocal about its failings, and are also hit with worst reactions like being told their issues are not issues.

If you are already part of the team, Clojure folks are very friendly. I want to avoid saying cult, but sometimes it has characteristics of one.