[dyadic]

It’s a long time since I used scala and none of this was ever a direct problem, but it was all extra complexity. I think there’s a split between people that appreciate sugar and people that find it not worth the additional complexity.

That problem does lessen with familiarity, but knowing a lot of complexity makes me wary of unknown complexities. It adds an overhead which takes energy that could be better utilised elsewhere.

[nikitaga]

If you don't need that "complexity" (I wouldn't call it that), you can use a pure FP or a pure OOP language that will be simpler, smaller, but more restrictive and less expressive. That's a matter of preference of course.

But Scala's syntax and language features are great when you actually make use of them to accomplish your goals, especially so with Scala 3. The syntax isn't excessive or frivolous or nonintuitive. It's a pretty straightforward encoding of the desired feature set of the language.