I am seeing just too much criticism for Scala and the coherent theme seems to be - "I didn't take time to understand the language well and then my pride got hur

I am seeing just too much criticism for Scala and the coherent theme seems to be - "I didn't take time to understand the language well and then my pride got hurt as I couldn't understand it's constructs. So Scala is shit and too complex." I am not from CS background, but I took time to learn it and by far it's THE most natural and expressive language I have found AND I don't even know what functional programming and the theory is, all I know I learned through Scala. Please guys, let's not project our laziness as a fault of Scala.