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>At this point, tutorials use examples like "like flatMap and Maybe in other languages!" which is even more confusing. Why do I need a monad then, if there are similar constructs in other languages that don't need the understanding of monad? Why the complexity? What do I get from monads?

Monads are a mathematical concept, like a ring. "Maybe" is a monad in whatever language you use it in, just like integers are a ring in whatever language you use them in. Pointing out that complex numbers, rational numbers, nxn matrices are all examples of rings and wrapping everything up into a type class doesn't add to the complexity of the language.



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