>>12I think that basically haskell implicitly imports this "Prelude" file with some basic stuff like list data types in it.
And after like 20 years of everything being ok they decided to completely change the prelude and break loads of old code so that everyone is forced to use these weird new typeclasses that Lens has (the shittest snakeoil library ever written).
Another option would have been just making a library that people can import but they have dominated the haskell world and taken control of it and want everyone to know that so they forced it upon everyone that uses GHC instead of making it a choice.
People are afraid to say that they are unhappy about this because there's a very small number of people that you have to stay buddy-buddy with who manage 90% of haskell jobs.. and you don't want to have to write java instead do you?