You're right, there are loads of conservative Java developers. It's one of the the things that makes me love using the language.

> The irony is that people are now abusing "aspects" and "dependency injection" via frameworks like Spring that bring everything but the kitchen sink, but then the language becomes effectively dynamic, as via those annotations all static type safety goes out the window.

> Misconceptions mostly.

But drop the strawman argument and borderline ad hominem. It'll do you better.