If you believe that verbosity has a cost and that only the most complex functions should have the privilege if being verbose, it's easy to see a point. Here's

If you believe that verbosity has a cost and that only the most complex functions should have the privilege if being verbose, it's easy to see a point. Here's a Haskell example: (+) <$> Just 1 <*> Just 2 Versus: do x <- Just 1 y <- Just 2 Just (x + y) I would always prefer the first for something of this complexity because the latter example implies something more complex is happening to me because it takes more space. If I had something more complex, I'd prefer to factor that operation into functions small enough that the first variation makes sense over using the second. This does trade "beginner+ can read this quickly" for "some beginners can read this". I'm of the opinion you shouldn't optimize for "some beginners can read this" because of very diminishing returns. Instead I aim for "beginner+ can read this" or in some cases "intermediate+ can read this".