That was the case for me. I went all in drinking the Clojure koolaid and wrote some small internal CLI tools with it. If I came back to that code a month or two later I could only properly understand it if I opened up a REPL to debug it. I ported those tools to Java and they were dead simple to comprehend.
One of the reasons Golang has had a use case in today's age is there is a need for a programming language with just functions, loops and if/else statements.
