Good points and Java being typed vs dynamic does impose some limitations (though properly used reflection can mitigate some of this).

Still, there is no reason Spring has to be that bad! It's not so much a Java thing as it is Spring-specific. I literally laughed out loud while reading their documentation. I thought more than once, "are they kidding?"

It's true about enterprises though. Most took forever to allow any open source. And, now that they have, they seem to be perpetually at least one generation behind. Some stability is good, and I think the startup culture tends to be at the other extreme: constantly throwing off some new tech flavor of the week. But enterprise is way to slow too adopt.

There has to be a happy medium!