Yep, there is even a talk on the Scala Infinity War which argues for one subset version of Scala that it needs in order to survive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8IQ-X2HkGE&ab_channel=Scala...
For me, Scala is a multi-paradigm language with tons of features. The community just needs different types of style guides for different apps. vars are horrifying for the functional crowd, but cool with me for example.
Does this have the same problem in large languages such as C++ though? Where everyone thinks there's an optimal subset of the language, but no one agrees on what that optimal subset is?