External factors. Clojure didn't offer a great variety of jobs, especially remote. There was a decent number of jobs for onsite positions, but that's the trade I wasn't willing to make.

The language itself is great. The ecosystem is fine, you can find most libraries and if you can't you can at time use the JAVA versions. This was at times a pain because Java client libraries for certain services were out of date.

Solving real-life business problems was tricky but ultimately fun and satisfying. As the resulting code is usually very elegant and succinct.

I really loved the interactive programming aspect of it. It was really easy to go from a repl experiment to the actual implementation.