I've also found my Scala experience to feel disturbingly reminiscent of C++ (and I have grown to love Scala). I find a significant difference, though, in that C

I've also found my Scala experience to feel disturbingly reminiscent of C++ (and I have grown to love Scala). I find a significant difference, though, in that C++ has a lot of complexity, while Scala has a lot of complex emergent behavior from a few simple core ideas (and the complexities needed to work out their details). Then there's the library, where yes, you see a hairy mess like that. Very difficult to read and understand, but it is a powerful combination of relatively simple and orthogonal concepts. Which doesn't necessarily mitigate the complexity. FWIW, you rarely need to write code with types that complex, and there is talk in the Scala community of how to simplify the presentation of methods with complex types in the documentation. But that doesn't make it more approachable today.