This is true - I love Scala for its hybrid nature. I'm just saying that I wish prominent members of its community would too. For example if you go on to the #scala IRC channel half the regulars on their will be complaining about how terrible Scala is ... For a variety of reasons that can be summed up as: its not Haskell.

If you spend a bit of time there it fades to background noise and #scala is actually a really friendly and helpful place - but "x is hard to do in Scala because Scala [sucks]" is an odd impression to give a newcomer.