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My problem with Java is that it is excessively object-oriented. I understand they've toned that aspect of it way down, but when I worked in Java between 2003-2009 it was gospel and it was preachy. But wow did I grow to hate it over time. I entirely quit programming for a couple of years, in fact. Then I discovered Python and I couldn't believe how easy it made everything, so I came back.

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To be honest, that over-architecture everything stuff came from even earlier with C++, that many people forget.

Java was just a valid target to many programs that were previously written in C++, and some of that mindset stuck.

I would argue though, that today’s java is not excessively OOP, and can be written in an elegant hybrid of OOP and FP, whichever suits the given subproblem best. (It literally has algebraic datatypes and pattern matching now).

Not really, if you compare the STL with the java standard library, the STL is much more category-theory / traits-oriented, and has a lot of "free" functions, where the java standard library is OOP madness.

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