The article is satire, but I have some observations of and questions about FP. It seems like every FP programming environment develops objects of some kind. React/JSX has classes. Clojure has a few ways to use Java classes. Monads seem to be wrappers at some level. Then, you have environments which are explicitly "hybrids" between OO and FP, like Scala and MOP in Common Lisp.

The whole world seems to be converging on the usefulness of immutability, and this process started decades back. Also going decades back, at least as far as the 90's, Smalltalk folks recognized that a lot of the goodness in the class library and environment came from the majority of class library functions being pure, or the encapsulation allowing programmers think about them as if they were pure.

Would it be going too far to observe that programming is generally converging on pragmatic, mixed environments where the value of immutability and referential transparency is emphasized, but where encapsulation of state is also used? This is not absolutely true 100% across the board, but it seems to be one of the larger scale trends.