The XML thing is still supported by the language, even if you need to install a separate first-party package to make use of it, so it is not an out-of-date talk

The XML thing is still supported by the language, even if you need to install a separate first-party package to make use of it, so it is not an out-of-date talking point. There are other issues, such as the undebuggable macro system that has too much power, the insanely overloaded `implicit` keyword (fixed in Scala 3), or the two competing syntaxes introduced by Scala 3.