Honestly one of the biggest problems with Java is that they are incrementally improving it, but then the new minimally improved code becomes legacy code for the

Honestly one of the biggest problems with Java is that they are incrementally improving it, but then the new minimally improved code becomes legacy code for the next incremental feature. Legacy code that uses Optional is a liability for any proposal that uses explicit nullability and non nullability. Record types could have been non nullable by default and so on...