And it won't get adopted any time soon due to backwards compatibility and existing code. Anybody who wanted to use it used vavr at this point.

I don't owe you anything. You can fork the project if to put feel like it. If not, fork off.

Thinking comprehension - who determines budget?

It's not HR that decides that, it's management. HR just enforces it.

Yeah, upper management and the finance department.

Query builders solve those problems without the complexity of ORMs.

Not the original responder - hibernate has had projections to solve #1 for ages, the rest are on point IMO.

Very few developers are competent with hibernate, many fewer than with sql. Writeback cache nature of hibernate makes it very complex, order of operations on the app won't match order of operations in the DB.

Often in code reviews and other discussions to describe some alternative approaches.

I think the only benefit for me is that they hammered IAM concepts into my head, as they are a huge mess on AWS.

Have you taken any of those certificates? They can be passed from reading exam dumps and without proven hands on experience mean nothing.