We use JRebel on my team, everyone has a license. We do continuous depolyments and are coming to the end of our current two week sprint. We use Java 8 and are a

We use JRebel on my team, everyone has a license. We do continuous depolyments and are coming to the end of our current two week sprint. We use Java 8 and are actively leveraging lambdas for code that is more readable. For sure, we are not doing everything mentioned but I think we're pretty progressive and, on the whole, have a healthy attitude towards learning new things. Not every job has to be as suffocating as your example.