A good reason to use sealed traits and classes in Scala
By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: March 28 2019
This scala-lang.org documentation page shares a good reason to use “sealed” traits and classes: When you created sealed traits, the compiler can easily tell all of the subtypes of your class or trait, and as just one benefit, you don’t need to add a default, “catch-all” case in your Scala match expressions.