I dunno. I'd say it's rather obvious that it's not a magical solution to everything. For one, Elixir is too slow for computation-heavy stuff.

I just gave an example of how happy path programming works in a use case that is pretty common to my day to day. A lot of other stuff I do is similar enough that the same applies, and that's just my experience, not marketing hype.

Some articles might be a little over-excited, but I don't think I've generally read articles that claim Elixir is God's gift to programmers ;). And in situations where Elixir does help, it can be very exciting.