Monads are a bit like exiting vim. The complexity is exaggerated to the point of a meme, but in reality not very difficult, and they can be quite useful.
That's a bit of an understatement, seeing as it's... I mean is it even possible to write a non-trivial application without accidentally implementing a monad?
Most people write monads all the time, and then their head explodes when someone calls it by its name.
