I think Apple should seriously consider looking into removing other obscure things as well. Their process of downloading optional stuff is very slick and painless.

After launching Minecraft (which needs Java) I had to confirm one dialog box. Java downloaded, installed and Minecraft launched. No user interaction required, it was completely painless.

I’m not sure why you are so hung up on Java. It’s certainly obscure enough to make it optional. Languages could certainly also be removed but OS X always had this philosophy of shipping every app and every OS with every language. There are no language versions of apps and Apple doesn’t like them.

You may not use them, but not everyone speaks english. Plus, I suspect that those were one of the things that got removed and that get pulled down at install time if needed.