"Minimum Boy Scout: Is this a controversial take? Of course you should leave things neater than when you found them, but after moving a project to Java 17 I had

"Minimum Boy Scout: Is this a controversial take? Of course you should leave things neater than when you found them, but after moving a project to Java 17 I had lots of lovely attempts to help by IntelliJ: “Can be a record!”, “Can be a text block!”, “Use pattern variable!”, “Replace with switch expression!” – these are all wonderful suggestions, but you are soon distracted by them and it will make the job take that little bit longer." This seems to be a application of the second system effect noticed by Fred Brooks in the 1960s (that the second version of a system is extraordinarily dangerous because of all the "while we're in here why don't we..." opportunities)