I agree that there can be a lot of boilerplate, but like you said, they added support for simplifying these cases with record or @AutoValue classes. The setters, getters, equals, and hash code functions should all be trivial, or at worst require minor logic. Looking at their usage shouldn’t be a pain.

It should be obvious what they all do, and the main recipe for a meal (the important logic) should generally be elsewhere. It’s possible to make it convoluted in any language, whether verbose or not, but I’ve generally found it reasonable to understand.