No need to get defensive about Java. I developed with it for over 20 years. But personally, I left it because I find it too painful to code in. Every once in a while I try the latest version and it continues to disappoint, records are a good example. I've also been working in fintech for the past 7 years and the companies I worked for, don't want to use Java. Its either been Kotlin/Spring because the syntax is much nicer, or Go because it doesn't have all the JVM baggage. Maybe Java is still really popular but fortunately, its also easy to avoid now.