I have been using Lombok for many years and haven't experienced any issues. Admittedly most of my work involves standard Spring Boot services, so perhaps your f

I have been using Lombok for many years and haven't experienced any issues. Admittedly most of my work involves standard Spring Boot services, so perhaps your friend works with some low level projects that behave differently. In my experience I don't hesitate to recommend Lombok. It will generate getters/setter/builders/toString in a transparent way, without visible changes in the code. This keeps Java classes much more concise to read. It also provides withers on records, while waiting for native support (it's coming)