The essential property (a type having a fixed number of named instances) is still there, so the name is fine. I can fully understand that someone used to C enu

The essential property (a type having a fixed number of named instances) is still there, so the name is fine. I can fully understand that someone used to C enums would go WTF at seeing Java enums for the first time. What makes it narrow-minded is when this leads you to rejecting them outright and writing blog posts to ridicule them.