I would argue that more concise syntax is actually why Scala became a niche and didn't get wider adoption and why some some examples of advanced Kotlin are real

I would argue that more concise syntax is actually why Scala became a niche and didn't get wider adoption and why some some examples of advanced Kotlin are really off putting. At certain point more concise syntax goes against readability. ... so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.