A huge convoluted function that is hard to read.

It looks like it was ported over straight from Emacs Lisp or something.

I see close to zero utilization of the expressivity of Clojure. Its a terrible example to showcase the language.

Maybe in 2010

Hardly looks like Clojure to me. Might be that Clojure reads and evals it, but thats it.

The “hiring problem” is when headhunters try to sell 10 Clojure devs into the same some company with a 50% marge as they are used to from reselling Spring and React CVs.

Unforunately not