Grails 4 is a fairly critical release for that ecosystem.
I think it has to be said that Grails 3 was a failure because it updated nearly everything but failed to improve much that anybody cared about and made a bunch of things worse - including, worst of all, it did nothing but exacerbate the bloat and slowness.
Even despite all of that I still don't know a framework for the JVM that is as comprehensively full stack as Grails, so I think it has a chance. But it really has to hit it out of the park. For now, I'm relatively happy just using Micronaut and piecing together a lightweight system on top of that.
