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SCSS is a lot easier to pick up for new devs, in my experience. "CSS with nesting and variables and some other cool stuff" is significantly easier to grasp.

I have a really hard time keeping myself from typing the {, } and ; when I'm in "css mode". Instead of fighting it I just embrace it.

I thought sass and scss were the same thing.

SCSS still uses {} and ; while SASS goes for Python-like syntax with indentation doing most of the work. But they are the same thing and are developed by the same guys.

They are. The names just represent the two different syntax styles that the project offers: traditional brace style (Scss) or Haml-like significant whitespace structure (Sass).

Significant whitespace is evil.

Noisy brackets are evil as well :-)