The Scala community is, and always has been, quite heterogenous. There's a vocal, and sometimes quite abrasive group of fundamentalists on HN and Twitter. But the Scala community is much more diverse than what you would hear from them.
There is a bit of difference between OO people who use Scala and OO people who influence it (through implementation work or design input); I'm not seeing much of the latter these days as an outsider, but I admit I might not be looking hard enough.
