You're not insane at all. A substantial proportion of the Haskell community (I feel like it's a majority but it's hard to be sure) have a stron

You're not insane at all. A substantial proportion of the Haskell community (I feel like it's a majority but it's hard to be sure) have a strong distaste for partial functions (e.g. head) and functions that throw exceptions (i.e. where you can't see from the type signature what the possible failure modes are). I'm afraid that momentum means that the base libraries change slowly, but you're a long way from alone. I suggest you come to https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/ https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/ if you'd like more discussion about it. We often have threads wishing for partial functions to be removed from base!