Many of the answers in the SO thread[0] linked from TFA agree with you: there are other means of abstraction in Haskell that "fit" with the language better, and

Many of the answers in the SO thread[0] linked from TFA agree with you: there are other means of abstraction in Haskell that "fit" with the language better, and they (and I) think those abstractions mostly obviate the need for Template Haskell. [0]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10857030/whats-so-bad-about-template-haskell https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10857030/whats-so-bad-ab...