I’ve never left Java, but it looks like you left before Java 17 which brought a whole lot of nice features compared to 11, and 11 would have just come out when

I’ve never left Java, but it looks like you left before Java 17 which brought a whole lot of nice features compared to 11, and 11 would have just come out when you left. 11 itself had some nice stuff over 8, which I’m guessing may have been what you were on.