The way I would phrase it is that the Java ecosystem is simultaneously both higher level and lower level (in terms of abstraction, not the machine) than many other platforms.

The ability to swap out basically any component of a framework like Spring simply by including a different dependency or replacing a bean at runtime allows for fine grained tuning that isn't possible in many other frameworks.

But this flexibility and/or modularity is enabled by a heap of pretty magical abstractions that glues everything together.