I think many of these comments are asking too much of a single short article. Or they want the article to be addressing the questions that they have rather than

I think many of these comments are asking too much of a single short article. Or they want the article to be addressing the questions that they have rather than the question it was written to address. The author is stating very high level reasons about why Haskell is a fairly unique language, as a (relatively) practical, popular, and pragmatic vehicle of programming language progress (mind your ps). For those that want concrete reasons for why it would be useful for a beginner, my personal honest opinion is that it may not necessarily be. Haskell does seem to require a decent amount of investment before it becomes practical. You may derive benefit from seeing the functional style in an enforced context. I know it informed and changed my python style a quite bit. You may find that these patterns were all around you the entire time and you didn't notice it, like learning new vocabulary words. Anecdotally, my interest in Haskell seems to have been very good for my career so far and I have not had difficulty finding jobs that coincide with my interest in typed functional programming generally. Perhaps I have been very lucky.