> You'll note that even Java now recognises that "public static void main(String[] args)" was pointless ceremony.

There is still the part of the ceremony that actually mattered: having a single entrypoint instead of the option to litter side effects throughout the file and having those side effects execute automatically on import.

> It sucks, but what's the alternative?

3.0 was a big missed opportunity to kill a lot of the deprecated cruft.