Since you seem very qualified to critize a PL, could you elaborate on the problems you see with scala ?

I recently had to study the option of starting a real project with this language, but after looking at it, it didn't feel like an elegant and well thought out language. More like a monster language people tried to stuff as many features as they could into.

But that was just a first glance impression. So i'm really wondering what someone like you think of it.