Yeah I think you're going places I don't care to follow. We were talking about a specific program, and I made the argument that the behavior of the program was more sharply determined by the incentive structure in which it was written. But you're kind of doubling down into a more general rant about Haskell that is actually totally divorced from the failure mode of the Haskell program in question.

I used to use Haskell too and I stopped using it for $reasons. Nothing to do with the prelude or its string type though. More about the nature of the language and paradigm itself.