Working with SOAP often gets tricky, and dealing with WSDL might be a huge contribution to the complexity of this task. Really, it could be the least expected thing to face when you are into a modern and fancy language like Scala, for example, which is well-known for its reactiveness and asynchronous way of dealing with requests.
In fact, many of the software developers that have made their way into the industry quite recently might not even know about SOAP and WSDL protocols, and get quickly annoyed or even enraged when first trying to connect to such a legacy service. So, should we deprecate this in favor of a modern technology stack or is there a less painful solution?