In my experience (as in, I've used it multiple times in various capacities over the last decade), Scala is kind of a mess. There's just not a clear reason to us

In my experience (as in, I've used it multiple times in various capacities over the last decade), Scala is kind of a mess. There's just not a clear reason to use Scala over the slew of other options that solve every problem Scala solves but better or more succinctly. The existence of Kotlin, Haskell, Python and Clojure or just plain old Java all invalidate one of the narratives a developer would tell themselves before adopting Scala. It's just the less popular, harder to adopt, maybe not even technically equal option. You also can't hire for it, which is a catch 22 for the Scala community. Also, in my very direct personal experience, the community is pretty toxic.