This is an article about going from Java 8 to 17. Generics and annotations are from Java 5.

Java's implementation of generics isn't great, but there are some professional coders out there who were born after generics and annotations were added, so it's probably time to let that one go.

What's the motivation behind going to an article about a language upgrade, then proceeding to shit on language features that have been there even before Java 8?

Java without generics was a pain. By today's standards I wouldn't even call it a statically typed language.

Neither of your examples distinguish 8 and 17, and a few things highlighted in the article that do can only be said to make things simpler and easier, like records and text blocks.

Because you’re wrong, that’s why. Generics really aren’t that bad. And people forget that Java generics came before many other languages.

> Keep my language simple.

Yep. Why class when record does job? Why polymorphic dispatch when pattern-matching does job?