thats a fair assessment and I sympathize. I'm at the point where being able to hire devs is a concern of mine. we just hired a new elixir dev to join my team and it was difficult finding people with experience. We had to go though a recruiter who specializes in elixir.
That said, I encourage you to not give up. I became an elixir dev after 9 years of working with javascript and nodejs. Personally I found it pretty easy to learn (was building apps in it as quickly as I could in nodejs after jsut 2 weeks). Its a magnitude order easier to learn than rust (though thats admittedly a low bar).
> I have been trying to grasp it for a month now, but an up-to-date resource is nowhere to be found
This is definitly an issue I admit. once you know elixir, you know the idioms and picking up the newest changes is pretty easy but I remember how it was to be a begginer. would love your input on what would be needed for a learning resource as I have been thinking about writing a book on phoenix for newbies.
As far as getting into elixir, if you have experience with javascript, I reccomend checking out immutable-js. the data structures are basicly elixir's data structures but in javascript. my experience ins scheme and functional style js were a huge help for me when I was learning elixir.