What makes you believe Java apps after early 2000 are any better? Spring apps = Factory pattern apps on steroids. But why pick even Java? Any backend landscape

What makes you believe Java apps after early 2000 are any better? Spring apps = Factory pattern apps on steroids. But why pick even Java? Any backend landscape of scale looks like that, mostly because kids want to pad their resumes with cool shit, or so they think. Eg. everything has to be fluent/reactive/async for some reason now - not a problem you could blame on "managers".