I find the opposite. With Scala my logic can be plain English written in the language of the domain, because Scala makes it very easy to push out secondary concerns like authentication or audit logging or error handling out into the type system where they're still there, still managed, still checked by the compiler, still visible on mouseover/click-through in my IDE, but they don't have to obscure the straight-through happy-path business logic. Whereas in Go, all the secondary logic has to be right there, which clutters up the code and makes it harder to see the primary thread, and in Python or Ruby either you do the same thing or else the secondary logic has to work by invisible magic (metaclasses, exceptions, method_missing...) and you have no hope of ever being able to understand what's actually going on.