Those are bytecode level related. You can't consume Java 16 libraries on Android either. It's not related to Kotlin at all. You are either being deliberately o

Those are bytecode level related. You can't consume Java 16 libraries on Android either. It's not related to Kotlin at all. You are either being deliberately obtuse or you genuinely have difficulty to understand that Java version, bytecode version, Kotlin compiler output and what bytecode Android supports are totally independent concepts.