While this is definitely a good new, we need to be very careful. Why? Those new fancy threads are stored on heap and need to be garbage collected. If you buy into ads and believe that you can create for free millions of threads, then, well, it is not gonna work on production.
Before getting too excited I advise to watch Tomasz Nurkiewicz lecture on the subject - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_XRUljffu0, it explains what are the trade-offs here.
Because of this server based on new threads does not need to be more performant, Jetty server guys tested this and they were not that happy: https://webtide.com/do-looms-claims-stack-up-part-1/
Before getting too excited I advise to watch Tomasz Nurkiewicz lecture on the subject - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_XRUljffu0, it explains what are the trade-offs here.
No silver bullet, again.