I had the exact opposite experience. We switched from scala to haskell and it has been a huge relief. I spend no more time dealing with dependencies in haskell than I did in scala, and our team contains precisely zero people with any post-secondary education (I didn't even finish high school in fact). The myth that you need "a team of PhDs" is so bizarre and so far from reality that I don't understand how anyone who has taken any time to actually try haskell could repeat it.