Arguably that is either wrong or depends on taste.

Haskell has very little syntax in comparison to something like C or Python and what little is has is very obvious.

I'd much prefer ML/Haskell-ish syntax in Rust, but I know I'm in a minority.

I agree with you, but Rust is mostly targeted at C++ developers so it makes sense that they'd use C++isms where they it wasn't crazy. Examples of crazy being resource declaration mirroring use.

You're more intelligent than that. Here you go, here's one recent large practical haskell project:

https://github.com/facebook/Haxl

Those academia people love themselves some horrible syntax. /s