I would dearly like to use Play, but I find it really uncomfortable (and not because I'm some stuck-in-my-ways Java developer). Play's heavy abuse of statics is a real problem from my perspective, in large part because it's extremely painful to write inheritance-based code; I realize it helps the simpler use case but I find that I don't regularly write to the simpler use case.

I've gone back to Servlets+Guice+Velocity because it's easier for me to write expressive code.