I could not agree with you more. My most recent job doing Java dev at a major US tech company has really soured me on this style of Java. Annotations beyond null/nonnull seem to obscure the code and make it far less maintainable. Besides being largely superfluous the DI frameworks — primarily Dagger — I've seen widely used at said company have led to numerous production memory leaks because they obscured object scope and lifecylce from engineers.
