The problems with the standard library (and I will say I agree with the criticism) all seem to stem from the fact that this text appears to be a 'port' of the "

The problems with the standard library (and I will say I agree with the criticism) all seem to stem from the fact that this text appears to be a 'port' of the "Write yourself a Scheme in 48 hours" which implements a scheme interpreter in haskell from 2008, thus the standard library is built upon haskell's list processing.