> Haskell is full of these little decisions where it just won't let you do something because it's not "correct" code, and they kind of don't care if that makes coding in it a fight against the compiler.

They care more about predicability and compositionality than about a novice's struggles. Professional programmers should prioritise those things. Certainly you can not care about those things for personal projects.

That said, Haskell could of course use plenty of ergonomic improvements, but the ones you describe are not among them.