The problem I've always had with these back-and-forths between various programming philosophies is that the very nature of the argument exposes the reason the arguments don't work.

The most common (but not only) way each side argues its point is to take some contrived example and show how philosophy X does it well, and how philosophy Y does it terribly. These examples are often ranted about by the "Y" proponents because "it's a bad problem choice designed to make Y look bad".

Yes. It is. Because X and Y were not designed to solve the same problems. If you pick an example Y is good at, most of the time X will be bad at it. So if you're doing something like that, use Y. But if you're doing something X is good at, then pick X

Why would you intentionally shoot yourself in the foot to use a framework, language, philosophy, etc. that was never intended to be used for that thing when there's something that was? Stop arguing about who's better at what. X and Y are good at different things. That's why they're _different philosophies/languages/technologies_.