[jonahx]

I appreciate you taking the time to answer, but honestly the boilerplate is just a killer. I don't care about the additional flexibility when the code is so much harder to make sense of, and this is just a toy example.

[toastal]

fp-ts has this same unfortunate issue (https://gcanti.github.io/fp-ts/guides/purescript.html#data) where a PureScript one-liner becomes 11 lines of boilerplate TypeScript. Or (https://gcanti.github.io/fp-ts/guides/purescript.html#patter...) 3 lines of pattern matching becomes 10 where the matching is done on strings (ad-hoc _tag property).