Agreed, I was surprised too. Haskell is the only language I've used in which the codebase doesn't turn into a Rube Goldberg machine in the short amount of time

Agreed, I was surprised too. Haskell is the only language I've used in which the codebase doesn't turn into a Rube Goldberg machine in the short amount of time (granted most of that was Python -- maybe it's Python in particular that has a problem).