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This exactly matches my experience with Elm. You wrote "..how resistant it was to me hacking my way to success"; the same here, I tried to do things my way, and Elm would resist (thankfully) those efforts. It resulted in an easy to maintain, much cleaner code. Initially, I went through a 3 month mental grind to learn FP in Elm to be somewhat productive. Then it suddenly stated to flow. A while ago I wrote a variation of Snake game [0], using elm-ui to render the simple graphics. The coding experience was fantastic.
[0]: https://github.com/holobeat/elm-snake
If anything, the insanity just got worse: https://github.com/elm/compiler/issues/1773#issuecomment-418...
There's an open bug re: negative literals, and accusations of bad faith towards the reporter.
I was also sucked into Elm in 2015]/2016 and found it great in some ways but broken in others. If I were to start a new project and wanted that kind of front-end, I'd use Mint: https://www.mint-lang.com/