> For what it's worth, I'm far from alone in asserting that jQuery is indeed a monad.

And a lot of people think that the reason astronauts float on the ISS is because there's no gravity there.

> Since Haskell people claim to be the only enablers of "true monads", they would of course nitpick about patterns implemented in other languages.

Yes, because monad is an actual term and calling something a monad just because it sort of looks like it if you squint doesn't make it one. You can't write return in the 'jQuery monad', because there's no way to wrap arbitrary data types, only things like DOM elements. Something like a promise is closer to a monad, because you can turn any value into a promise, but IIRC there are still issues around it that I don't remember offhand.