A list is a monad

The amount of people who tie themselves into knots to understand this pointless concept is very funny to me. I am 16 years into a successful software engineering career without learning what a monad is an it never held me back. Turns out I can use lists and optional types and all that jazz without it.

I mean really. Look at posts like this[0]. What does this give you? Nothing, in practical reality. Nothing.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44446472