The community that takes design patterns to far just happens to use Java (1.4 ;( ) if they used a different language they would do the same to that :(
Anecdote: I once saw a Perl shop that could have been the worst of Enterprise Java. They where the same because they where ENTERPRISE, they suffered in Perl in the same way the common office programmer suffers in Java.
It will take more than a decade before we see any decent adoption of Java 8 in the industry.
You are still going to see piles and piles of getters/setters, Enums, your design patterns taken to far extreme. Writing such pointless ceremonial code is the bloodline of Java community.
Merely introducing a new version hardly changes anything.