Because the point is mostly lost on the unrelated analogies most tutorial writers use. A monad is a mathematical construct. Trying to explain them in terms of w

Because the point is mostly lost on the unrelated analogies most tutorial writers use. A monad is a mathematical construct. Trying to explain them in terms of what makes sense to you, because your analogy results from your understanding, isn't likely to be more helpful than outright accepting what they represent, mathematically speaking, then putting that to use in your code.