FWIW, you can count me in. I've understood monoids better thanks to your article. My comment was not a jab at your article, but a comment on how hard it is to

FWIW, you can count me in. I've understood monoids better thanks to your article. My comment was not a jab at your article, but a comment on how hard it is to find the proper abstraction level. And that I fully understand people who'd say it is making things more complex for its own sake, and I'm not sure it necessarily is because they don't want to learn.