[zbentley]

Oddly, I almost feel compelled to.

The verbosity in that code is less of the typical (and deserved) Java criticism of over-architected pattern cancer. Instead, almost all of the verbosity there is due to a refusal of the language to assume common defaults.

Whether assuming common defaults or forcing people to think about that stuff is good or bad is debatable. But it's certainly far from deserving of the "uuuuuuuuurgh" of a lot of (mostly older) Java I've had to wade through.