When it was released, there were two camps to adopt it: people that wanted an FP, and people that wanted a better Java. Since Java went through a long period of stagnation, most of the Scala code out there is written by Java developers that just wanted a better Java.
Kotlin has stepped in and replaced Scala for "better Java" role. But this history has left a pile of crap code written by people who didn't want to use Scala.
Clojure doesn't have this problem because you couldn't ever use it as just a better version of Java.
When it was released, there were two camps to adopt it: people that wanted an FP, and people that wanted a better Java. Since Java went through a long period of stagnation, most of the Scala code out there is written by Java developers that just wanted a better Java.
Kotlin has stepped in and replaced Scala for "better Java" role. But this history has left a pile of crap code written by people who didn't want to use Scala.
Clojure doesn't have this problem because you couldn't ever use it as just a better version of Java.