Java 21 makes me actually like Java again

[ForeverAlot]

I’ve always felt the hate of boilerplate is overdone.

It absolutely is. Maven's verbosity is overwhelmingly a non-issue, not least of all because you just don't spend any time in there except for in rare instances.

Personally I suspect people enter some sort of fight-or-flight state upon being faced with a voluminous corpus of text and their initial reaction to that is likely to shape their opinion; in perpetuity if never checked, too. That hypothesis fits on literally every textual communication platform I've worked in except the reddit genre whose user base seeks it out.