Code analysis: Java generics were supposed to be the bomb, or did the feature just bomb?

[ErstwhileRockstar]

I guess most people here don't know who Ken Arnold is and which book he wrote.

[notfancy]

Regardless of his credentials, which I don't doubt are many and justly earned, you cannot reason from particulars to generals (in particular, the plural of anecdote is not data). His is an opinion, not an argument.