The braceless syntax also took me a while to get used to but now I just love it. But a Scala-bonus is that they are optional so you can always go back to your braces whenever you like.
There has been so much care, experimentation and discussion put into this, including this epic thread with almost 600 posts (sic!): Feedback sought: Optional Braces - #588 by odersky
and then there is also the discussion on fewer braces (where colon i king 
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So I recommend to continue experimenting for a big while and perhaps after that while there is a god chance that you do find it very intuitive – and in cases where you want the brace-explicit syntax you can just use that. The braceful syntax is promised to never go away…