Clojure users tend to prefer tiny libraries that excel at one task and compose them together. While Pedestal is definitely a framework, its eclipsed by the sheer popularity of Ring (HTTP abstraction library similar to Rack), where you roll with your own choice of web server, router, middleware, database, data validation and coercion, etc.
Right. Instead of 4 frameworks competing, yet having mostly similar say 25 underlying functions, clojure has say 50 functions (assuming half the framework code overlaps between frameworks) as libraries that can be composed to achieve the same functionality as those frameworks, and more.
