There are places stuck with Java 6 or 7. Java 8 is still relatively recent for the Enterprise world.

Java 8 was a special version. Lambdas, stream API, diamond operator and new exception catching syntax together eliminated 50-80% of noise in Java code. The language is still verbose, but much less than pre-8.

(Still, I prefer reading Clojure. The form of Java language still causes too much structural noise in the codebase.)