It&#x27;s useful to keep in mind that the canonical interpretation is &quot;Avoid (success at all costs)&quot;, rather than &quot;(Avoid success) at all costs&quot;.<p>Either way, I personally have the opposite experience: I find that the Haskell community is quite self-critical. Sure, you have the &quot;I have seen the light and I must spread the faith&quot; idiots that all newly-popular technologies gather, but the veterans tend to be quite critical of the failings of the language, and invested in finding ways around them (I do realise this steers dangerously close to a no true scotsman).