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My biggest difficulty in learning Haskell was to distinguish the really useful from the useless. There is a lot of “academic nonsense” in Haskell (both in the language and in the code people have written) and a lot that is just broken and abandoned or unnecessarily complicated. Unfortunately, it takes a lot of time to separate the wheat from the chaff. Underneath the 50 or so language extensions, the completely outdated (and in my opinion broken) Prelude and the super frustrating and unpolished tooling and cursed lazyness hides a very beautiful and powerful, simple, productive, purely functional programming language.

To summarize, you could say that Haskell is not really made of one piece, but is something like a 34 year old, very messy academic playground.

So it might be helpful to switch to a purely functional alternative, Purescript/Elm/Gren for practical programming, or Idris/Agda to explore the more academic side.