First, that was a nice article.

Second, I agree with you that Haskell does not have to be too complicated. I only ever use a few language extensions, I use a subset of the language, and try to do repl oriented development.

The downside of my simple approach is that reading other people’s code takes real effort because I am likely to not understand many of the idioms and techniques that other people use.

Programming should be fun and productive, and it is up to everyone to figure out what works for them.