You can't operate on the JVM without being able to understand what's happening on the JVM. Being "afraid" of it is pointless. It's like any other technology bui

You can't operate on the JVM without being able to understand what's happening on the JVM. Being "afraid" of it is pointless. It's like any other technology built on top of another, e.g., you still have to know ES5 to work with ES6, because things go wrong. "Powerless"? Java, because (for the most part) is fairly static and banal, is relatively straight-forward to understand compared to Scala.