Could not agree more. I think , spring boot + spring cloud is extremely popular in the services (should i say microservices world).

Not to say , there is a changing world. Frameworks like Quarkus , Micronaut , Javalin are changing these status quos (Reactive + Cloud native + First class Kubernetes / FaaS support + Being lean). What remains to be seen though is how is Spring able to adapt and change to these. I dont know how Webflux stands up to these , but sure is interesting times ahead!