I like your post. There is a long YouTube video of a dev doing a long breakdown about why FP "lost" to OOP. In reality, it didn't lose...or rather, it won by using the backdoor. OOP integrated many FP features into their own languages. As a result, you can do lots of FPish coding in modern OOP languages.
How on Earth did FP "lose"? Most systems I work on these days use TypeScript, it's taken over huge parts of the industry, and OOP in TS is like an after thought that most people forget is even there at all. All the TS codebases I work on are 99% functional, with most JS/TS devs leaning into it more rather than less.
