I think not much has changed since then in terms of usability. I use Java at work daily and most programmers suffers from same thoughts as it was decades back.

I think not much has changed since then in terms of usability. I use Java at work daily and most programmers suffers from same thoughts as it was decades back. It is always writing frameworks and not straightforward code for requirements at hand. They believe it is their moral responsibility to write abstract solutions framework for problems of future programmers. EJB and XML may be little old and unfashionable but in its place Spring-Everything* is there. And now Spring annotation turdlets are sprinkled all over the newly fangled Cloud Microservices in Java.