Yeah, I definitely agree. Especially coming from a source control system before git where mutability was extremely hard (and likely to cause, deep, terrible problems) so a lot of great work had been put into making it less likely you would even need to mutate things down the road, such as good interactive defaults to help lead you through exactly what was going into a patch....

Certainly there are a lot of people that seem prefer imperative mutability, and more power to them, but maybe we learn from all of this and build better tools too.