The documentation also has an aura of "Isn't this all very clever?"

This attitude needs to die. Forever. Why the fuck should I need know about contravariance and parser combinators to write a basic web app? I hope this Scala forking will kill it in Typesafe. It has no place in actually building products.

I notice a lot of difference in quality between libraries released by enterprises and those by users. It's the difference between https://www.paypal-engineering.com/2014/02/13/hello-newman-a... and Dispatch. We need way more of the former.