Five years ago (depending on your company) you might not have even been using closures. Java has come a long ways since then, and lombok has eliminated most of

Five years ago (depending on your company) you might not have even been using closures. Java has come a long ways since then, and lombok has eliminated most of the boilerplate. Modern Java can be pretty pleasant! Of course, there's a lot of crap code out there, but there's a lot of crap code everywhere.