On the contrary. The fact that there are two languages that “coexist” means that now we can have politics. The same would not be true if the choices were Java a

On the contrary. The fact that there are two languages that “coexist” means that now we can have politics. The same would not be true if the choices were Java and, say Go, because then it’s a complete rewrite. There would still be the possibility of politics but the engineering decision would be so one sided as to make it difficult to leverage. With Java vs Kotlin, disingenuous folks pretend they are the same thing.