I’ve been working on Java projects for almost 20 years, in huge banks as well as startups. Never seen the kind of nonsense that gives Java such a bad rep. Lots of anti-patterns for sure, but which language is immune to them?

Java >= 8 is an OK language, with arguably the best ecosystem and build system. Modern Java has become a nice language, but unfortunately you’d be lucky to work on a Java 11 project, let alone 17.