[BjoernKW]

Your last statement simply isn’t true. I’ve been using Spring Boot for years in a variety of configurations and it works absolutely fine.

[not_kurt_godel]

As long as we're going with anecdata, I'll add that in my experience Spring is a goddamn nightmare. I've spent X too many times in dependency hell with it and have vowed to never voluntarily use it again.

[BjoernKW]

That’s exactly the point of Spring Boot. It makes an opinionated choice of libraries that work well together so you don’t have to.