I just sidestepped the issue by becoming a Haskell programmer and I'm glad I no longer have to deplete my judgement by making those kind of decisions :)
There's value in that, sure. But when programming one is generally modeling a business process, and some of those processes really are easiest to understand by thinking in terms of a thing that changes. So it's nice to have a programming language that lets you talk about things that change in a natural way.
