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This is coming from me being most comfortable with OOP and dynamic languages.

If you want to write Scala to actually get things done, you will find that it's a miserable language to learn and that you will need to invest significant amounts of time, energy, and sanity to learn it. Furthermore, there are no shortages of Scala apologists who are so utterly enamored with the cleverness of the language that they will not concede how much of a pain in the ass it is to learn. They will claim it is easy, and then they will have no empathy for your plight. It is actually quite shameful.

The attitude in Scala-land is that you are the problem, and not Scala. When you do encounter a roadblock to a seemingly simple problem, which will be quite often, you're lucky if you find a 20 paragraph explanation on StackOverflow. Otherwise, you can hopefully find a lengthy blog post about something closely related. In either case, the attitude is that it is _not_ Scala's fault that solving problem XYZ requires you to understand several chapters of advanced concepts -- it's _your_ fault for not already knowing it.