Sure, we can find factors for "verbosity increase" and "difficulty to understand a line" where what you say is also true. I think that java found a decent spot

Sure, we can find factors for "verbosity increase" and "difficulty to understand a line" where what you say is also true. I think that java found a decent spot where both factors are low. It's not a particularly verbose language, especially in modern times (records, type inference, I even mention lambdas because some people live in caves), like if you do POJOs and stuff with getter setters than you get a no information increasing extra 3+3 lines of code per field and that's most of it. Method bodies are not more verbose than other typical languages.