You've literally got things upside-down.

Coming from an imperative language background, it certainly took some time for me to start using and understanding functional constructs. But the nice thing is that once you pass that bump, it's a hell of a freeway to go down.

Agreed, the fact that you're saying you can't nest if statements is a sign that you still don't get the grasp of functional programming.

cases, conds, with statements, recursion, pattern matching...

I experienced the same. Once you start, it's hard to stop. An amazing community around this awesome language is hard to let go.

The trend states so.

That's the point. With "here, copy and paste this code" at least you (can) read what you're pasting into your project.

Most of people learning just "install this module" without actually caring about what's inside or any implementation details.

Licencing is a whole other beast worth of another post.

Oh, I can. So can you. But I assure you, the people you are referring to, those would come right back, requesting letter-by-letter guidance of integrating the code/package into "their" product. Been on SO, seen that, got the t-shirt.

Tell that to them. That's my point!

Why I didn't mention StackOverflow, for instance?

Well, why? It's been overrun by the very same help vampires.