Clojure is not "cool". Matter of fact, for a novice it may look distasteful, it really does. Ask anyone with a prior programming experience - Python, JS, Java to read some Clojure code for the first time and they start cringing.

What Clojure actually is - it is "down to earth PL", it values substance over marketing, prioritizes developers happiness in the long run - which comes in a spectrum; it doesn't pretend everyone wants the same thing. A junior can write useful code quickly, while someone who wants to dive into FP theory can. Both are first-class citizens.