Also read as: "This language is so poor at expressing common abstractions that we need to litter our code with not-code so that a compile-time code generation tool can make it tolerable."

Though, to be fair, Java finally has records (or will?).

As a Lisp programmer, I feel personally attacked by that.

At least Java doesn't have those pesky macros! /s

I've heard more than one Java programmer dismiss macro based compile-time meta-programming as way to complicated while happily littering codebases with annotation and classpath based runtime meta-programming.

The difference is that Lisp isn't a programming language- it's a programming language language. ;)

I thought Lisp stands for "Lots of Irritating Single Parentheses" ;)

"... Making this language actually quite pleasant to use due to its gigantic ecosystem." but I see your point. Lombok is really just a collection of bandaids and some cool stuff and @SneakyThrows as mandatory footgun.

It might be a good start in most cases but it is not foolproof in every case.

A foolproof automated method would have to read your mind and Lombok can't do that.