I don't know if that's the case. It can certainly be tricky to "unlearn" this instinct when trying a language like Haskell after being immersed in imperative la

I don't know if that's the case. It can certainly be tricky to "unlearn" this instinct when trying a language like Haskell after being immersed in imperative languages, but I'm not convinced that either is 'more natural' than the other. For example, it's easy to forget how utterly baffled a learner can be when faced with: x = x + 1