Having both options is great (at the beginning effect had only pipe-based pipelines), after years of writing effect I'm convinced that most of the time you'd rather write and read imperative code than pipelines which definitely have their place in code bases.
In fact most of the community, at large, converged at using imperative-style generators over pipelines and having onboarded many devs and having seen many long-time pipeliners converging to classical imperative control flow seems to confirm both debugging and maintenance seem easier.
Building pipelines:
https://effect.website/docs/getting-started/building-pipelin...
Using generators:
https://effect.website/docs/getting-started/using-generators...
Having both options is great (at the beginning effect had only pipe-based pipelines), after years of writing effect I'm convinced that most of the time you'd rather write and read imperative code than pipelines which definitely have their place in code bases.
In fact most of the community, at large, converged at using imperative-style generators over pipelines and having onboarded many devs and having seen many long-time pipeliners converging to classical imperative control flow seems to confirm both debugging and maintenance seem easier.