Yes, that's exactly what I was getting at. It was less a criticism of FP (which is why I say it feels like it might be - it's not) and more a criticism of the bevy of techniques common in modern full-stack development.
Even then I'm not saying it's bad to do thing that way. They absolutely have their place. OOP has its place. FP has its place. Distributed computing has its place and vertical scaling has its place. The point is, dogmatically latching onto "X bad! Y good!" blinds you to potential solutions.
Even then I'm not saying it's bad to do thing that way. They absolutely have their place. OOP has its place. FP has its place. Distributed computing has its place and vertical scaling has its place. The point is, dogmatically latching onto "X bad! Y good!" blinds you to potential solutions.