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> It's a small feature which is immediately understandable by anyone coming straight from Java 1.2

You literally started with "Java takes a while to design a bigger feature that will replace several smaller ones' use cases".

But look, this small feature is not a one-off, and is actually useful because <arbitrary arguments>

> Meanwhile records arrived several versions ago

> Meanwhile C# has many many "one-off" features

Such one-off features like records and pattern-matching that C# also has? Or multiline strings that C# also has?

Or any other useful features directly impacting developer experience that you just dismiss out of hand because for some arbitrary reason you deem them "one-off" or small. Until they finally make their way into Java of course.