I have only used Clojure for side/hobby development, which admittedly makes this a shallow observation.

I've found working with Clojure to be extremely pleasant/joyous and when I've had the need to bring in someone else's code, it's been an overwhelmingly good experience, even if the library is 5 years old and untouched for the last 4. (Find a random node package that's last changed 4 years ago and it might as well be toxic waste. Find a clj lib in that condition and it's probably going to work smoothly.)

I do agree the prevalence of lots of examples of leiningen and fewer examples using tools.deps/deps.edn and clojure cli makes it hard for me, as a beginner, to know the "right" patterns to use.