I'm sorry for snapping at you. It just makes me sad to have to fight unwarranted skepticism all the time. People throw opinions out of the blue, sometimes without even considering a heartfelt attempt to try things out first.
Evangelizing for Clojure has become a moral issue. Just like arguing with gun-control, climate change opponents, and anti-vaxxers. No matter what arguments you bring to the discussion, those who don't want to listen - just wouldn't.
You say: "Clojure is very pragmatic",
They'd be: "I don't want to learn Emacs".
You say: "But you can use VSCode, Atom, Eclipse, Vim, IntelliJ to write Clojure",
They: "Too many parentheses..."
You say: "Other languages have more, and a bunch of other things like semicolons, commas, curly braces, and operator precedence rules... "
They: "But it's not statically typed"
You say: "It has Spec. Spec can do things, most type systems cannot"
They: "But I don't like JVM..."
You say: "JVM is a very robust, solid piece of tech..."
They: "Clojure is dying..."
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Honestly, I don't understand this tribalism. Like people really don't want it to succeed. It isn't some zero-sum game - the success of one language ecosystem does not mean there's less pie for others. There are many things in other languages - Rust, Elixir, Javascript, etc. directly inspired by how they first were done in Clojure. Just think about it: Cognitect has a team of fewer than fifty developers, and the Clojure community has no more active members than engineers working for Google, yet there's a constant pace of innovation for the entire CS community. Maybe the language has something to do with that, after all?