If you don't need that "complexity" (I wouldn't call it that), you can use a pure FP or a pure OOP language that will be simpler, smaller, but more restrictive and less expressive. That's a matter of preference of course.
But Scala's syntax and language features are great when you actually make use of them to accomplish your goals, especially so with Scala 3. The syntax isn't excessive or frivolous or nonintuitive. It's a pretty straightforward encoding of the desired feature set of the language.
