But to be fair, Java 8 to Java 12 (2014 to 2019) happened a lot faster than Java 6 to Java 8 (2006 to 2014). Being on Java 8 is not a bad thing because it's actually not that old.
Java 12 won't have long-term support, so you need some compelling reason to choose it for prod. Java 11 (the next LTS release after 8) has only been out since September, and the module system (which I find pretty pointless for backend) did break some stuff, so I only feel a little bad about not being on it yet.
