[weego]

I've been a Scala and FP developer since 2009ish and it suffered initially from over-enthusiasm to make it seem 'futuristic' as a rejection of the overly verbose reality of enterprise java codebases.

There's been a lot of sensible work in the core codebase since then to move towards more coherent idioms, unfortunately the 'we can make Scala into Haskell' crowd have since taken up the mantle and everyone has become obsessed with the idea that no boilerplate starter project is complete without cats or similar which perpetuates barely-legible and unnecessary confusion in situations that should be simple.