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It's not just Java! I see this all the time in C and C++ as well. Developers seem to be afraid to use types as they were intended. For example, look up any OpenGL question on StackOverflow and you'll see things like what should be an array of 3D vertices with separate x, y, and z components passed as a 1D array of floats.

In C++ we see quite a bit of abuse of std::pair<> instead of just making a fucking struct to hold 2 properly named, easy to read pieces of useful data. Nope! Apparently calling all your data members "first" and "second" is better to some people.

I don't know if it's an educational problem, a language issue, or something else, but I see it so frequently that there must be some common underlying cause (or set of causes).