I don't think the starting premise of the article holds at all. Both jazz and Haskell are hugely popular, by listener and practitioner, and user count respectiv

I don't think the starting premise of the article holds at all. Both jazz and Haskell are hugely popular, by listener and practitioner, and user count respectively they've probably never seen better days. Pure math I wouldn't say is really hated either, but it's rather pretty irrelevant for most people. Even in software development, I would say it's pretty rare that you actually need advanced math in your day to day work.