Java has supported (mostly) functional programming constructs since 1.8 (which was 2014), so you can realistically use it without doing too much OO. I've obser

Java has supported (mostly) functional programming constructs since 1.8 (which was 2014), so you can realistically use it without doing too much OO. I've observed, though, that people who complain about OO in Java usually write top-down procedural code rather than functional-style code, which is far, far worse.