Yeah I know, we just don't use Java 21 at work yet. I'm super excited for that update, and it actually looks like we will be transitioning to that by the end of the year, but I haven't had a chance to play with it just yet.
I do find it a little annoying that it's taken so long for Java to get a feature that, in my opinion, was so clearly useful; it feels like they were about a decade later on this than they should have been, but I'll take whatever victories I can get.
If you can enable preview features, you can use pattern matching since Java 17 (though the final syntax in Java 21 was slightly changed - still you may want to use preview features, it's mostly fine in Java as they tend to change very little, and when you do upgrade, the compiler will tell you where you need to update your code).
