It would be cheap and easy to label this view as almost a perfect example of Stockholm syndrome, but I would suggest you may need to be a little more objective and critical of your tools. The master works with a variety of tools exactly because they have strengths and weaknesses. Java has some extreme weaknesses in verbosity, almost to the point of programming language diarrhea. It envelopes a development culture that gave us things like: InternalFrameInternalFrameTitlePaneInternalFrameTitlePaneMaximizeButtonWindowNotFocusedState.