Oracle offers extended support for JDK 8 until the end 2030, which is more than four years longer than for JDK 11. I'd say this is the more likely reason that J

Oracle offers extended support for JDK 8 until the end 2030, which is more than four years longer than for JDK 11. I'd say this is the more likely reason that Java 11 is not adopted more. Spending a few hours to fire up an application to figure out the right --add-opens call really does not seem like such a big imposition to me.