[Haskell-cafe] AMP - how do you motivate this in teaching?

Because of AMP, I have to rewrite slides and example code for my lectures, and I don't like it. In fact I probably won't do it, and will advise students to return to ghc-7.8 - but then, how does that look? Really, my answer to [1] 3.5 Beginner friendliness How often did you say ... "A Monad is always an Applicative" is: never. (for "is a Functor" - often. In fact, always) Now, I don't want to bring on another general discussion of AMP - instead I'd like to hear from people who use monads in teaching (e.g., to define semantic domains) about how they sell "Applicative m =>" to their students. (The intersection of AMPers and teachers is non-empty?) - Johannes [1] https://wiki.haskell.org/Functor-Applicative-Monad_Proposal