We had that about a year ago in our product as well, though from Java 7 to Java 11. That JDK 9+ hump was definitely bad, but since then each incremental JDK has

We had that about a year ago in our product as well, though from Java 7 to Java 11. That JDK 9+ hump was definitely bad, but since then each incremental JDK has been smooth. The idea of using "the latest JDK" is fairly modern in the Java world, so people are still getting used to it. I'd say it's good now though, with perhaps 16 -> 17 being a minor hump since things that were deprecated but allowed in 9+ are now removed.