I don't dispute the coolness of any given Haskell feature. Haskell does have a lot of really neat features, but that doesn't mean that the language is fun to use.

C++ also has a lot of really cool features but I also do not enjoy writing it, actually for similar reasons as Haskell (though I don't think Haskell is nearly as irritating as C++).

> of course hand-writing lenses is just one line anyways

The lenses themselves aren't hard to write; I was referring to the annoying quirk of Haskell where records couldn't have the same field names. Lens has a nice helper macro `makeFields` so that you could more or less automatically have the generated lenses have the clashing names.

To be fair it actually always worked fine for me but it always felt janky until `DuplicateRecordFields` was released.