Comment by Sakos

Confused about the criticisms now. Otherwise everybody complains about Java boilerplate. Remove some of it and make it optional, to avoid bogging down newbies in irrelevant details in the first instance, and further lead to less boilerplate to make simpler applications in the second instance (or further down the line). I'm not seeing a massive amount of effort being expended here, and I don't see how it's being wasted.