I agree, but do not boil down Haskell to Monads. The most interesting abstractions are the ones you write. The only contribution Haskell has here is a flexible type system. It does not give you anything for free per se.

Rather, what I am saying is I see a trend in the Haskell community where the developers strive to find the best semantics for a problem and not just stop at the first arrived at solution because it works.

See all the conversations on pipes vs. conduit if you want an example.