I've seen worse magic crap happening with Ruby and Python with their auto-magic method invocations.
I want to agree, but at least locally (as in geographically), these technologies seem to be heralded as fantastic. Maybe there's some kind of Spring Bubble around here, but on the main Maven site, Lombok shows up as the #16 most popular package (with primarily logging and language packages above it), and Spring isn't too far behind.
> Ruby and Python with their auto-magic method invocations
It's probably worth separating those two... as far as the functionality goes, Ruby and Python both have the capability of similar magic, but in my experience with popular frameworks, Ruby takes it to a whole other level while in Python it's generally discouraged.
I realize it's all anecdata here, but in my experience working with various companies and platforms, the Ruby magic generally just lives behind the scenes and Just Works. The Java magic would often turn into runtime exceptions, and the people who tried to do Ruby-like magic in Python would have similar difficulties. All of that revolved, primarily, around the ecosystems around the languages.