i think i agree with you, but want to make one additional point.
I think haskell is actually fine at writing code without abstraction, it's just that people don't choose haskell to go down that path, and so aren't satisfied with those "simplistic" solutions.
I think haskell is actually fine at writing code without abstraction, it's just that people don't choose haskell to go down that path, and so aren't satisfied with those "simplistic" solutions.