It's really just a criticism of dependency injection /frameworks/.

Manually wiring dependencies by calling constructors is still dependency injection. This also has the upside that the compiler will check you have satisfied all dependencies, and you can more easily trace execution.

Frameworks like Guice/Spring are often used to hide lots of wiring boilerplate but come at a price of losing typesafety, adding more magic, and hiding some code smells. If your wiring is getting complex perhaps you need more modularity.