I think that’s the case with any concept in computer science or math. It’s easy enough to explain integration to someone using simple examples like f(x) = x^2 b

I think that’s the case with any concept in computer science or math. It’s easy enough to explain integration to someone using simple examples like f(x) = x^2 but it gets a lot more difficult when you introduce Stokes’s theorem and differential forms. Most of the people complaining about monads are not in your situation. They are struggling to grasp even the most basic examples because they understand concepts only by analogy to other things they already know and monads don’t map to anything they know.