Speaking as an outsider to Haskell, I have to say that while its core purely functional ideas are a little hard to wrap my head around, what daunts me the most

Speaking as an outsider to Haskell, I have to say that while its core purely functional ideas are a little hard to wrap my head around, what daunts me the most is the incredible number of different ways there are to do everything, some recommended, some relics. You have to ask so many questions when you start learning Haskell: Should I use an alternate prelude? What string type should I use? Should I use lens? What package manager and build system should I use? What IDE plug-in works the best? What language extensions should I use? Should I make use of laziness, or try to avoid it? Are linear types a thing yet and should I use them? And on and on the questions go.. these aren’t questions that move forward the product, but just an endless list of boring details to figure out. I’d love a new version of Haskell with all the incredible power of GHC but without the standard library cruft. With all the best extensions picked out and on by default. With a wonderfully thought out stack and set of recommendations, along with a clear guide describing all of this, similar to what the Rust ecosystem has. In short, Haskell to me seems like a playground of interesting ideas rather than a coherent ecosystem for building software. Which I think is true since it’s a research language, but that’s what stops me from using it.