It's not "my" flavor of Scala, it's what it's designed for. It's a pragmatic, ML family language.
Read Odersky's book, write code, still have access to all JVM libraries and a lot less brain damage.
There are people that try to write worse Haskell in everything from Perl to Kotlin too. The reputation is overblown and has little to do with the actual language.
They also gloss over the huge productivity killers that are sbt and scalac. Compile times are almost as bad as C++ where I work. Sbt will be "Done compiling." and then hang for 15-20 minutes.
Itβs funny that you gloss over one the big productivity issues with Scala. Somehow everyone who joins your team should be acutely aware of your flavor of Scala.
If the community decided if wanted to be a better java or a worse Haskell then I bet more people would be productive in Scala