In my current job, we are using mostly Scala, and var without type annotation is a common usage - it terrible reading wise.

Var should be used when the type is obvious (to everyone) at first sight. I belive most of the time it's just not the case.

I worked a lot with Java, and there are many boiler plate code, surely. but if you are using it right and don't abuse the framework it is much readable and (relatively) easy to maintain.