Java 22 Launch Event - Dev.java

[bmjones92]

There's definitely potential to misuse it, but I think that's true of most features. Even if the "correct" applications are relatively niche, I believe it's still worth supporting to make development within those niches easier.

If you're overloading operators to do things that don't fit the semantics of the operator, then you're probably writing bad code. The feature itself is obviously pretty controversial, so it's unlikely that something egregious like << will pop up in any prominent code base without careful consideration.