You would be enlightened the same way or even more if you started with Haskell. That is, it is not Scala you are so excited about but the functional programming.
Btw, the actual thing to be inspired with in Scala is immutability and Option/Some/None instead of null. These are the things that make you code stable and reliable.
Unfortunately, I slowly got frustrated reading the what's coming for Scala 3.
* True intersections and union types -- use them sometimes, not something you can't live without though.
* Trait parameters -- slightly easier life for OOP, ok I guess.
* Function types and implicit function types -- right, will make your code even harder to read (subjective).
* Generic tuples -- again, I can't remember we ever had problems with tuples in Scala.
* Opaque types -- another small OOP improvement.
* Type lambdas -- I've never seen them used.
* Erased parameters -- probably useful if it improves performance even at the cost of readability right?
* Enums -- finally something practical, good.
And that's all about major changes in Scala 3. Ah, yes, we get a new compiler. Are you excited?
These changes look like a quarterly release than a major version shift. Now, imagine a project manager who's estimating the migration downtime for Scala 2 for the sake of the above.
Btw, the actual thing to be inspired with in Scala is immutability and Option/Some/None instead of null. These are the things that make you code stable and reliable.