22 fields limit in Scala 2.11 + Play Framework 2.3 Case classes and functions

Scala 2.11 is out and the 22 fields limit for case classes seems to be fixed (Scala Issue, Release Notes). This has been an issue for me for a while because I use case classes to model database entities that have more than 22 fields in Play + Postgres Async. My solution in Scala 2.10 was to break the models into multiple case classes, but I find this solution hard to maintain and extend, and I was