You might not need factories, but they get foisted on you anyway. But the proliferation of "programming patterns" in java I think is symptomatic of a basic user

You might not need factories, but they get foisted on you anyway. But the proliferation of "programming patterns" in java I think is symptomatic of a basic user-unfriendliness in the language. Off the top of my head I can think of three Patterns just for creating objects (Factories, DI, Builders) - the fact that these are even required, that object creation isn't self evident, suggests there's something wrong in the language design