I've never had a Java IDE insert something like that?

But either way, you have to go out of your way to do that, which is sort of my point.

The one place where you do see dumb boilerplate and chances to screw up is in dealing with checked exceptions, which have been controversial since the very beginning. I think they are one of those things that seem like a great idea in theory, but end up not working out so well in practice, but (like people who appreciate Go's error handling model) there are people who disagree.