It's ABSOLUTELY by design. On the Java Mailing Lists, the creators/stewards of Java are constantly fighting back so many feature requests BECAUSE those feature

It's ABSOLUTELY by design. On the Java Mailing Lists, the creators/stewards of Java are constantly fighting back so many feature requests BECAUSE those features would threaten backwards compatibility. And that mailing list has been going on for a long time now. You can see feature requests (and their subsequent rejections) going as far back as the late 90's lol