As the Scala team lead at Lightbend, I'm truly saddened to see posts like this. It couldn't be farther from our intentions and interests! We absolutely want outstanding Scala documentation, and would never stand in the way of improving them in any way.

My whole team has worked extremely hard this year to bring you the best 2.12 compiler we can. We also spend as much time as possible helping out with polishing documentation, but we feel a coordinated push for better documentation belongs under the umbrella of the Scala Center (whose mission is to "Independently guide and support the Scala community" and to "Provide deep, and quality, educational materials for Scala"). We'll be thrilled to collaborate, but we (as veteran Scala users) are not the best placed to write getting started guides.

EDIT: It was brought to my attention that my comment about the Scala Center could be misinterpreted. I meant to say I would support a proposal to the Scala Center advisory board about improving Scala's documentation, with a focus on the getting started experience.