This is not the answer that HN wants to hear, but Spring has enormous market share and makes your resume more marketable for tens of thousands of jobs. Clojure, or any other niche language you might insert here, does not help with career building on that level.

For every one shop that looks at darling niche stuff and thinks, "Ooh, that probably makes him or her a better programmer", there's ten shops who look at it and think, "They're probably going to be insufferable to work with, undermine the architects at every turn, and spend their whole time complaining about the tools we use".

As an aside, if you see Spring as existing to correct issues with the underlying Java language, then I'm highly skeptical that you've ever had meaningful experience with either one. Spring is a portfolio of libraries, stretching across over a dozen business application development domains, with inversion of control as the only common thread. NO language has all that baked into its standard library, and you'd have to pull down a bajillion NPM packages (or whatever) to even come close to approximating it.