I would agree with you, except there's no way to fit type erasure into that sentiment. Type erasure is a complex solution to an easy problem, done purely out of

I would agree with you, except there's no way to fit type erasure into that sentiment. Type erasure is a complex solution to an easy problem, done purely out of laziness and a broken sense of what "backwards compatible" should mean. The moment you try to do anything "interesting" with generics, you realize the sham that they are and start passing around `Class<T>`, which is exactly what you would have done before generics anyway.