You're completely right. Clojure enables an incredible amount of productivity. It lets an engineer compose just the things they need, quickly and powerfully, to ship something complete and functioning rapidly.
With that said, might it also be possible that there could be some drawbacks? Having worked in and with Clojure, I found the ecosystem incredibly immature. It's somewhere beyond arrogant - reckless comes to mind - for most engineers to do all their own plumbing for a web service. The odds that they'll manage to design someone easily long-term maintainable are slim. The chances of authorization, authentication, potential SQL injection, and a thousand other security things being handled well is effectively none - the Clojure ecosystem seems wildly ignorant of such things. The core philosophy of just composing the libraries you need into Ring means that anything you don't actively think of will be entirely neglected. This is a dangerous and unprofessional way to ship code that will be facing the real internet.
This stands in stark contrast to the level of consideration around maintenance and security that has gone into a modern, mature framework. Or a modern language where SAST is an option.
Again, you're completely correct. Doing low-level stuff feels absolutely amazing! The sense of control, of having your hands in the guts and the ability to do what you need without wasting time on bullshit magic, is heady and glorious. It's just perhaps worth considering that that magic can sometimes be incredibly valuable, well worth the tradeoff against the feeling of freedom.