A good comment to motivate myself to learn the language; particularly the last line ;-)
I personally detest the babel of languages involved in "modern ways of programming" and have settled on C/C++ for everything since they are available everywhere. The only other languages i am willing to seriously consider adding to my repertoire are Erlang (functional/concurrent/distributed/fault-tolerant/hot-reload) and Prolog (knowledge representation and derivation using predicate logic) along with a formal verification language like Lean4/TLA+ etc. due to LLMs usage.
A common misunderstanding around OCaml is to classify it as a functional programming language, it is actually a multi-paradigm language. In short, in OCaml, you can write in any paradigm you want, imperative, object, or functional.
Typically, I write in a mix of OCaml and stubs in C (for bindings to Linux libraries), for everything, to replace shell scripts, Python scripts, Javascript/Typescript, but also for big applications (I wrote a clone of Emacs in OCaml, a long time ago, before writing MLdonkey).
Once you have started using it, it does not replace your main programming languages, it replaces all the languages you needed...