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It looks like there's been a very conscious effort to strike a midpoint between Java's familiar clunkiness and Scala's hipster experimental side.

I think that's a good thing, you end up with a language that feels pragmatic and powerfully practical.

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Which is funny, because Scala is a pragmatic mix that's halfway between more "pure" functional languages and Java. Guess the sweet spot is a quarter of the way there, not halfway. :)

I've been told that a big selling point for Kotlin is that it was developed from actual usage and production rather than some of the more academic languages solving abstract (although still interesting) problems that day-to-day developers may not care much about.

The Henry Ford quote about faster horses comes to mind.

You're trying to tell us that Scala is something better and we are just too stupid to understand it's power/beauty/importance?

Scala is undeniably more powerful overall (beauty and importance are subjective).

It's also used by companies like Verizon, SAP, IBM, Walmart ... not exactly hipster research labs.

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