I feel like spring got leapfrogged by plain javaee a bit; I can imagine that in early '00s Spring was big improvement over Java EE 1 .4 or whatever but modern J

I feel like spring got leapfrogged by plain javaee a bit; I can imagine that in early '00s Spring was big improvement over Java EE 1 .4 or whatever but modern Java EE to at least some degree caught up, JEE 8 and 9 being relatively pleasant to work with, along with Microprofile, while Spring feels more stuck in the 00s feel.