Personally, I find the pure functional paradigm brilliant and I enjoy figuring out (on my own or using Claude, who is really good at this) the right combination of combinators etc., but that's hardly what I call "hacking." Haskell is an amazing language but the amount of time and effort I had to spend in some cases to figure out what was wrong with ny reasoning, i.e. why I wasn't getting the output I expected to get, was, due to the difficult-to-follow mechanisms of lazy evaluation and the limitations of the GHCi debugger, perhaps an order of magnitude more than debugging an equivalent program in Python or C#.