Yes. And you could use Lombok to do the same before that.
(Though I'm one of the weirdos who likes Java in it's explicitness, which is related directly to its verbosity. I like reading code where I can see what the local variable types are.)
(I believe it depends on the exact scenario. In cases where the return type is not obvious I also much prefer explicit types (eg. ConcrType a = someObj.someMethod() ), but I don’t find A a = new A() any more readable than the var version)
