Getting a bit precious about typing is IMHO a weakness of the Haskell community/mindset.
It’s not my favorite language, I’m a Lisp guy, but I stand by my assertion that a random sample from the Haskell population is a better bet on a hard problem than a random sample from the GraphQL population.
It seems fair. I have an hypothesis beyond the fact that it's a niche so self-motivated people are pre-selected: what somebody needs to learn Haskell are in good part applicable to computer science and programming languages whereas for JavaScript you need to learn the quirks and the specificity of the ecosystem first. The second experience does not translate very well to solving hard problems.
Sure thats like saying a random sample of 18 gear manual semi drivers are better drivers than an average suburban suburu dad driver, and … that makes sense!
It’s not my favorite language, I’m a Lisp guy, but I stand by my assertion that a random sample from the Haskell population is a better bet on a hard problem than a random sample from the GraphQL population.