Yeah I’ve had totally the opposite experience. I would inherit dumpster fire Scala code based and found the language always gave me the tools I would need to apply refactorings with surgical precision, always maintaining some invariant (e.g. code compiles, test pass, etc...) for each commit.

By the end of whatever work I was doing, there was always the added benefit of the code base looking and feeling much better. Plus it’d take maybe 1/5 as much time to do a huge refactor compared to my experience in say Java.

I really don’t understand why people have such a hard time with Scala, other than its very different from imperative ways or doing things.