Well... depends on who you ask. I, personally, was more in the &quot;about time!&quot; camp. But I have met several programmers who didn&#x27;t think they&#x27;d need those &quot;newfangled features&quot; at first. Especially in the &quot;early days&quot; of Java 8... And sometimes I still meet people like that. So that scentence was targeting those developers that are still stuck with Java 5 or 6 or 7 and have never tried Java 8.<p>Also, I was once co-teaching a C# workshop where we showed people how to work with LINQ and extension methods (long, long time ago ;) ). Some participants asked us if there was a way to configure the compiler to <i>forbid</i> those features for their team.<p>Not everybody likes &quot;modern&quot; features, I guess ;)