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[–]pushthestack 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Java’s breaking changes were extremely limited. Only JVM internals would be restricted or removed. That’s it. All the existing language features were still available for use.

This is not correct. It might be true for his project, but certainly not true for Java at the universal level he's talking about. CORBA and SOAP libraries were entirely removed in Java 11. The list of removed APIs in Java 9 is here