> 'There's something very seductive about languages like Rust or Scala or Haskell or even C++. These languages whisper in our ears "you are brilliant and here's a blank canvas where you can design the most perfect abstraction the world has ever seen.'

Do they? I think the Haskell community online is pretty crappy for this and other reasons, but GHC/Haskell are at their best when you actually use them to write programs instead of doing things like this.