You're not wrong, but I don't really think this is the fault of FP.
I had the exact same experience with people not understanding new paradigms with Procedural (programmers experienced with Assembly using GOTO for everything), OOP (programmers used to procedural using only static methods), MVC (by putting everything in the controllers and ignoring views/modules/helpers), MVVM (by modifying state by themselves instead of using the MVVM mechanism).
All those things were always "obscure" for newcomers since it was different from what they learned in college, but after a while they became second nature.
I think the answer is not to avoid those paradigms because they're hard, but rather to teach people how to work with them. It's expensive but it's only way forward IMO.
I had the exact same experience with people not understanding new paradigms with Procedural (programmers experienced with Assembly using GOTO for everything), OOP (programmers used to procedural using only static methods), MVC (by putting everything in the controllers and ignoring views/modules/helpers), MVVM (by modifying state by themselves instead of using the MVVM mechanism).
All those things were always "obscure" for newcomers since it was different from what they learned in college, but after a while they became second nature.
I think the answer is not to avoid those paradigms because they're hard, but rather to teach people how to work with them. It's expensive but it's only way forward IMO.