I don't say that FP is superior to imperative programming, I just say that I've never met anybody who switched from FP to imperative programming.
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I would qualify with ".. that has actually fluently learned FP." I see a lot of folks get a quarter into it and turn back, which is fine, but like you, I don't know of anyone that got fluent in eg Haskell and then decided that Java was better.
Closest thing to that is Rust
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but even then, I mostly see "Rust is the best imperative programming language, for when a functional language is unsuitable"
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Rust is pretty far from an ML. It's the first C-style language with an ML-type system, that's for sure.
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Agree with you on the first and partly on the latter. Perhaps you could put ATS under the 'C-style with ML type system', and then it would predate Rust. But it also has more functional stuff than Rust, from what I have been able to make out. 🤔