My point is that a Haskell programmer would be able to make sense of either version equally easily. Chaining applicative actions using <$> and <*> is a very com

My point is that a Haskell programmer would be able to make sense of either version equally easily. Chaining applicative actions using <$> and <*> is a very common idiom. If you don't know it, you don't know Haskell.