There is a better Java, its Kotlin and its embrace has been lukewarm by community. I think golang serves an interesting purpose and it was always meant to be a better C not better Java.
People are adopting Kotlin, I’ve seen many coworkers using it for new projects. It becomes a bit more complex if you’re trying to integrate it into an existing large code base, of which there are many in Java.
don't give me the crap that java is for system programming just because java can, it doesn't mean anything if nobody significant is using it
any programming language can system programming as well if you go by that definition, python, lua, javascript
Even Android 13 update to a newer Java 11 LTS subset seems to be caused by not losing the ability to use specific Java libraries than anything else.