I started programming Java in 1996. It really is a static boilerplate language. I'm wary of going too far in the direction of functional notation for the same

I started programming Java in 1996. It really is a static boilerplate language. I'm wary of going too far in the direction of functional notation for the same use case though. Replacing code that is slow to read with code that is slow to expand in-head may not be the win people expect it to be.