This is an interesting question. Not because of Java (that is answered) but because of the alternatives. Kotlin/Scala/C#/F# are the same stack types, C/C++/Rust are lower level, leaving it realistically (job market) to Python, JavaScript and Go. Python and JavaScript are quickly sorted out as non static typed and Go is still not in the league of Java or .NET despite all it's amaziness.

So it boils down to: do the people like static typing or not.