No. It&#x27;s a problem because you, the reader, <i>are</i> missing the point.<p>Being against cargo cults does not make you elitist. This characterizes <i>a lot</i> of people, and it&#x27;s not fair or accurate to blindly ascribe them with malicious motivations.<p>Think about a different area: people who try to &quot;simplify&quot; quantum computing. What do we get? Mass confusion. The fact that so many people think that quantum computers can solve all NP complete problems by trying every possibility <i>is a real problem</i>, not a consequence of &quot;people who take disproportionate pride...&quot;!<p>And then people go on an try to build things on top of these ideas and end up creating a mess because they started off on shaky foundations. Then that mess gets enshrined in a popular library, it creates lots of problems for everyone. Then programmers either live with those problems or conclude that the whole functional programming &quot;thing&quot; is delusional and useless.