That made me laugh, but it's true. The Erlang docs are like 1980's brutalist architecture. Functional but utilitarian. But it's great to have the Erlang docs in IEx; it's my favorite docs interface.
Yeah, IEx's h/1 function is great. I just wish it had some sort of built in search for when you don't really know exactly the Module and function you're looking for.
The conjunction here is purely to taste, since utilitarian implies functional, as well as not particularly attractive; both are correct (as would just 'utilitarian', since it's not a loss of information, implying as it does the functional aspect).