I don't understand the question.
I am not familiar with Haskell but from what I understand
Pandoc is a group of hand crafted parsers (readers) for markup formats.
How does this relate to a discussion on the relevance of parser generators / libraries?
How does this relate to a discussion on the relevance of parser generators / libraries?
https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/tree/master/src/Text/Pandoc