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> defining requirements, shipping a product on time, understand tradeoffs

You could say that Haskell itself is only good at the first of these.

And: that it's common for a Haskell dev to not be good at the first, leads to deeper questions about Haskell's reason for existence at all in industry.

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No, I think you could say that Haskell allows you to be good at the first. Working with stakeholders to help define requirements is not a skill you pick up with functional programming. In fact, my comment you're quoting really isn't dependent on what language you are using. It's more or less just a correlation about the haskell devs that were hired. Was trying to point out that finding people who learned haskell on their own time aren't always a good fit.

> Working with stakeholders to help define requirements is not a skill you pick up with functional programming

I'd go as far as to say it's not a skill you pick with any programming language, paradigm or technology. It's an important skill which happens to be orthogonal to the technology you're using.

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