[stephen]

Dispatch is so often used as an example of hard to read Scala code/operator overloading abuse, that I think it should be shuttered just for the greater good of the Scala community.

That being said, programmers can over-engineer things in any language; it's just that in Java, over-engineered things are "incomprehensible and huge" while in Scala over-engineering things are usually "incomprehensible and small".