No, we *do* care about easy, which is why I definitely do not use stack. If I could fob off all the pain to you every time it comes up, I think you'd change your mind about what you are calling "easy." Alas, it is me, and students, who must suffer this pain. Thanks for that.
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cabal install fails cryptically far more often than stack does, and that's the point. There are a lot of people who want to give haskell a shot. Their budget (in time, energy) for learning is understandably limited, they'd rather spend it on learning haskell than nix.
Suppose this were true (it's not, but suppose it was). Why does every critique of stack turn into, "but it's not cabal"? Here is some news for you: I HATE CABAL MORE THAN YOU DO. Can we please stop talking about cabal? Please, fucking please, goddamn motherfucking please?
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talking about whether stack is good or not necessarily compares it to its alternatives. Its goal of installing haskell software is not contested, so the question is whether it's better than its alternatives at this purpose or not. Naturally this leads to discussing alternatives
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The alternative to stack is not http://stack.Talk about that.
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