In my opinion the tooling like sbt, scalafmt, ... is actually semi decent, but the LSP is a pain to use.

The only way I'm productive on scala is on Intellij, as soon as I have to even glance at the metals LSP implementation my productivity skydives

This is compounded by the fact that most good AI editors are based on VSCode, which means I either have to suffer through it, or alt-tab to intellij any time I want to edit code