> On the server-side, customers use mostly Spring/Spring Boot these days to make Java's overengineered stack usable, using even more over-engineering and metapr

> On the server-side, customers use mostly Spring/Spring Boot these days to make Java's overengineered stack usable, using even more over-engineering and metaprogramming. Could you elaborate on the overengineering part? There are many modern frameworks that are much lighterweight than Spring/Spring Boot, and with the introduction of lambdas in Java, things are even more straightforward. Also, gradle doesn't use XML.