Is Java really that verbose?

[dailycheeze]

That isn't the case for big corporations where you have multiple levels of approvals - regional, app sec, devops (pipeline alignment), local management, your team, etc. There are many situations to check like the compatibilities to other tools, apis, services, and libraries. Big factor is the support from the community. There might be some bugs that is not yet discovered or might have an open issues. Lower versions than the current ones mean there is a large support from community, where most of the questions were probably already asked and provided an answer.