> No more braces necessary

Optional braces seems like a weird feature to me. I would prefer consistently. I think a language should either be "bracey" or not. Just pick one!

Joking? Scala 3 added 20 keywords (14 of them contextual), many of them with entirely new syntactic constructs behind it.

> Scala is one of the smallest typed languages in terms of syntax.

Eh, that slide isn't really worth looking into. None of the languages there have a uniform way to represent the grammar. If you look at the C# and Scala grammars you'll find that the Scala one is highly compacted, whereas the C# grammar is intentionally not compact. They're encoded in different formats.

I think "lots of syntax" means many rules to learn, rather than many characters to type. So this change means even more syntax.