Another big difficulty is the handling of depedencies, as spring boot is bringing in gprc, jpa, jdbc and countless other libraries. One really needs a dedicated team to figure out all these issues!
Very true! But management is sold on "best practices" from VMWare suits. So any practical difficulty is just an excuse for not learning the latest, Next generation technologies.
It brings in whatever you use. Also, it has a goddamn webpage where you can click together what do you want to use and it will create an initial project for you with the chosen build tool and what not. It hardly gets easier than that.
This isn't true. Spring Boot by itself brings in very little, you can however _add_ GRPC, JPA and JDBC support by adding a library and Spring Boot will even autoconfigure it for you.
