The OP addresses your question, saying he is not advocating for removing laziness, but does have some specific suggestions.

> I'm not advocating for removing laziness in Haskell. In fact I'm not really advocating for much of anything in this series. I'm just complaining, because I like complaining.

> But if I was to advocate some changes:

  * Deprecate partial functions
  * Introduce a naming scheme for partial functions to be more obvious
  * Introduce a compiler warning to note partial function use (with a pragma to turn off specific usages)
  * Warn by default on partial pattern matches
  * Advocate strict data fields by default