[coolsunglasses]

I think you've got a point there that can be reinforced by looking at the ratio of Haskellers vs. those comfortable with splitting things out to (.) or (>=>)

Critically, however, one does not need to be good at abstracting out code in Haskell to be happy and productive using Haskell.

We need to be careful not to move on the goalposts on our beginners, it's deeply unfair and frustrating if we make them think they can't do anything at all until they can do it perfectly.

[dllthomas]

I think I agree with all of that.