[jay-anderson]

I believe a similar argument could be made against using any 3rd party library. At some point who ever is maintaining your code will have to understand its dependencies at some level.

For lombok specifically, other languages have these types of features built in which of course people need to learn in order to use it.

I agree it isn't a perfect solution, but java is in dire need of boilerplate reduction features like this and lombok fills this need well.