I disagree with your conclusion, and actually a good understanding of monads can lead to better designs that are not necessary intuitive, even for C++ experts -

I disagree with your conclusion, and actually a good understanding of monads can lead to better designs that are not necessary intuitive, even for C++ experts - see https://bartoszmilewski.com/2011/07/11/monads-in-c/ https://bartoszmilewski.com/2011/07/11/monads-in-c/.