Way to deflect any possible criticism

There is no blame to defect. What’s supposed to be so weird about Ocaml syntax?

How do you print a list in OCaml? There's your answer as to why it's not the same thing.

Don’t get your point.

You can ppx_derive on a list type. There is a feature specifically designed for this common use case. That gives you a pretty printer for a list. Alternatively you can tier the type pretty printer.

Is there supposed to be something special with lists?