I think you described much of the European Java job market atm where shops prefer hire Spring/Boot-experienced devs. A lot refuse to invite you to interview if

I think you described much of the European Java job market atm where shops prefer hire Spring/Boot-experienced devs. A lot refuse to invite you to interview if you have 0 XP with it or will try to hire you as junior (less pay), no matter that you were in fact doing Java using other tools. Absolutely insane. edit: typos