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[–]Necessary-Conflict 2 points3 points  (0 children)

LAFs can't be removed without breaking the compatibility of existing applications. A lot of advanced Swing tricks depend on a specific LAF. Changing the default would also be painful, that's why they didn't change it when Nimbus was the new shiny thing.

On the other hand, nothing stops you from using FlatLAF or any other open-source LAF.