Why is there no IO monad transformer in Haskell

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Recently I studied monad transformers in Haskell. And I became very curious why there is no IOT monad transformer. For example, I can add IORef environment to IO monad like this

type IORefEnv s = ReaderT (IORef s) IO

But why can't I add IO effect to my environment in a similar way?

type IOReader r a = IOT (Reader r) a

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