The use of Applicative is actually an attempt at clarity, by restricting the kinds of things that the code can actually do.

As it name implies, Applicative is a kind of "effectful application". There have been proposals to implement a more natural syntax that makes the connection more clear.

Unfortunately I think it's the language, not the community. It definitely happenes with my own code as well, no hints from external developers are required :-) I miss Python in this regard.