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1000% this. Having worked in Haskell and having learned rust the past couple years. I love Haskell, but Rust really married a ton of the good parts of Haskell with a lot of "soft skill" elements that allowed it to graduate beyond being mostly a research language. It matters that in Rust I don't need to go read some blog posts about type theory if I want to make an API endpoint. It's not even that Haskell the language requires that, Haskell the culture requires that because there aren't (or at least weren't a few years ago) that many people promoting practical Haskell.

The culture and ecosystem should definitely be a huge part of selecting a language.

I haven't written more than a few pet projects in Haskell, but in my experience haskell-language-server is quite fantastic. I agree though that cargo has been a better experience for me, and while the documentation for Haskell is better than I would have expected, it certainly doesn't match up to rust.

And oh boy if you thought rustc was slow…