The community as a whole has definitely dialled back use of complex features. If you're used to Lift-era Scala, that was probably the high water mark in terms of "people having fun with confusing features and syntax", and things have gotten steadily more "normal" in the intervening half decade (perhaps approaching a full decade!)

To be clear, these complex features are still there, it's just that people tend to not use/overuse/abuse them as much. Just like how Python has metaclasses and import-hook metaprogramming, but it's not something that a typical developer has to deal with on a day-to-day or even year-to-year basis