I believe the segment that cast shade on instanceof checks was doing so in the process of mentioning "pattern matching" features from other languages. It would

I believe the segment that cast shade on instanceof checks was doing so in the process of mentioning "pattern matching" features from other languages. It would be difficult to suggest the utility of pattern matching without explaining the issue that it addresses. I agree that you can do this with a boilerplate of `MyEnum getType()` methods, and I admit I often do this so I can use a switch statement in situations like these, but I don't at all resent the suggestion that maybe there's a better way -- this does come up often enough that I would rather appreciate a language feature that helped me deal with it.