C# and Java are both guilty of this. I don't think generators will help nearly as much as hoped, because Java has the same problem even though it supports build

C# and Java are both guilty of this. I don't think generators will help nearly as much as hoped, because Java has the same problem even though it supports build time code generation through Annotation Processors for like over a decade, since Java 7 I think. Reflection is just easier. Unless you go out of your way to use libraries that use code generation, Java is just as bad as C# in this regard. There's a few bright spots, like MapStruct for object->object mappings and Dagger2 for dependency injection that are built entirely on code generation. But these are exceptions to the norm