One might understand an extra-hostile stance against Java applets, having witnessed tortured attempts to keep a vendor's applet running when that applet require

One might understand an extra-hostile stance against Java applets, having witnessed tortured attempts to keep a vendor's applet running when that applet required a very, very specific (and even then very obsolete) version of Java 1.3 incompatible with some other awful software's requirements. Breaking other, innocent software would have seemed like a pretty fantastic deal, in order to reduce future applet pain.