From an outsider perspective (but my last company used Scala heavily), Scala supports nearly every language feature under the sun to the point that idiomatic us

From an outsider perspective (but my last company used Scala heavily), Scala supports nearly every language feature under the sun to the point that idiomatic use of the language is hard to define (unlike say Python, which has very strong idioms). It seems that if you want a multi-paradigm language, Scala is excellent. But if you just want to go down the functional route or OO route (without overlap), there are arguably better choices.