I can envision a point in Haskell's future where we might want to let the combinators in Data.Bits be the ones we use for Bool, where &&/||/and/or/any/all/not/ just smash things together with Bits and we generalize more of base.

That would be an incredibly dumb thing to do with non-short-circuiting versions of the operators.

I for one don't want to cut off that possible future for a 10% gain for a limited usecase.