Just a word of advice—you’re digging yourself in a hole if you make low-quality, ad-hominem comments like that. Comments of the form “you didn’t read X” are specifically discouraged on HN. Maybe you feel good writing it, but nobody feels good reading it and nobody learns anything.

I took another look at the page you linked and it still looks like syntactic sugar for Monads. It’s still monads. Monads monads monads. Applicative and Functor are generalizations of Monad.