For large organizations it's also an organizational lift, plus their attraction to have all the latest goodies from the latest JVM versions is probably a little

For large organizations it's also an organizational lift, plus their attraction to have all the latest goodies from the latest JVM versions is probably a little less, so a lot of the same inertia that existing in moving from 7 to 8 and from 8 to 9 is going to resurface for any migration, even if the actual breakages during the compilation step are less.