You would think so, but personally when I picked up Elm it was extremely handy, and then faded into the background. I expected it to be annoying as an experienced dev, but I actually appreciated it initially and then it wasn’t annoying or even on my radar: my brain skipped right over it.

Once you’re more experienced with the language, you’re typically using your editor to handle the error checking, so the extra “noise” is ignored in the parsing of it.