Could you please expand on why you felt v2 was a departure from Play v1 in terms of simplicity and elegance? Why do you think that is -- and why was that trade off not the right design decision (or was it?) in your point of view. And finally, why does this effort "help that."

I am genuinely curious about your conclusions, but I'm frustrated by not being able to guess how you got there as I'm not a java web developer.