I don't see how the first example has anything to do with currying. Of course, I don't know the language, but I really don't see anything about that that couldn't be done just as well with syntactic sugar and no currying. For the second, are you currying infix operators? That seems questionable at best.

Overall, that's just the equivalent of syntactic sugar. Hardly a good argument for a fundamental construct.

And I realy disagree that you can dismiss things as "just" different philosophies. All philosophies are not born equal.