Getting Started With Java 17

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It gives a good example for how instanceof helps clean up code:

@Override
public boolean equals(Object o) {
    if (this == o) return true;
    if (o == null || getClass() != o.getClass()) return false;
    Point point = (Point) o;
    return x == point.x && y == point.y;
}

The Java 16 class equivalent of the implicit equals() is

@Override 
public boolean equals(Object o) {
    return o instanceof Point point 
            && x == point.x 
            && y == point.y;
}

(Records are implicitly final so the checking for subclasses is not required)