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There is that, yeah. There was a lot of translating things from Haskell to Scala 1:1, and that didn't always work out so well. Well, actually it does mostly work on a technical level, but with heavy costs when it comes to ergonomics. The implicit imports and poor type inference was enough to cause frustration within our team.

That's why I specifically mentioned ZIO. Things improved greatly after migrating to it. It feels like it plays to Scala's strength. It infers well and we don't have a single implicit import to make it work. Well, with the 1 exception of the optional Duration syntax so that we can write "5 seconds" instead of "Duration(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS)".