My guess it is actually more about silver bullet syndrome. Haskell seems great on the surface when you don't need to deal with state, order, memory constraints

My guess it is actually more about silver bullet syndrome. Haskell seems great on the surface when you don't need to deal with state, order, memory constraints, memory layout etc. and can just focus on data flow problems. I think people want programming in general to have that sort of simplicity, but data flow programming is already where focus can be on transforming data without the complexities of most real world programs. I think there is a lot of desire to try to make Haskell work in all situations instead of what it is best at.