> I worked at a functional / typescript heavy shop where when I had parsed what a complicated set of steps was doing discovered multiple redundant queries and a library that was parsing strings into code. But damn some of those functional paradigms chef kiss /s

And I've worked at a place where the imperative code was crap. Should we abandon all imperative code because I had that experience?

People can write bad code in any paradigm - that's not what decides how we should code.

Nobody says we should throw away all imperative code because of one poorly implemented code base. But for some reason I see that targeted at FP all the time.