I agree that learning ML style languages has benefits, when I discovered the concept of "Option" the ideas behind pattern matching and functional programming made a lot more sense, especially when it comes to writing systems software.
But for some reason your comment reminds me of James Mickens quote from "USENIX: The Night Watch" article[1] "You can’t just place a LISP book on top of an x86 chip and hope that the hardware learns about lambda calculus by osmosis"
Unrelated to the article itself but Fivetran has the worst possible product from a developer perspective, their APIs are unreliable and will fail on you randomly.
I understand the dynamics of articles in Forbes (the successful entrepreneur making his way to success, lots of them are paid for.) but most such companies have such shit infrastructure and APIs, I wonder if people are only paying because they're locked in or their non-tech clients use this stuff.
[1]: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf