This is just preposterous. Out of all programming languages I've used, never have I seen the bloat of Spring. Innumerable interfaces, abstraction behind layers

This is just preposterous. Out of all programming languages I've used, never have I seen the bloat of Spring. Innumerable interfaces, abstraction behind layers and more layers to do the most basic of changes, not to mention the bizarre fetish of Java developers to NOT write code and instead relying on "hacks" (Annotations). Spring boot sure, Spring boot works out of the box by slashing all of the configuration from spring, "convention over configuration" they say, which does not help understanding the underlying magic that Spring does, it just adds more magic upon it, so it's just yet another layer of abstraction to learn. Is that all? No! We need more annotations, so add Lombok on top of the existing @ hell.