Spring of a decade plus ago was fine, it just required a day or two of upstart to configure the whole deal if you weren’t already familiar and had a good project to reference as a basis for bootstrapping.
The tradeoff of today with Spring Boot is you might get bitten down the line with a little configuration mystery, although it’s such a well-blazed path you’re probably in good company and will find your error solved and documented.
In addition, it’s Java so virtually any serious task is done in a well-blazed fashion with numerous open-source options available. In contrast my Node library I used to generate and validate an XML document at work last month cannot read in its own XML output. It’s a boon for efficiency.
The only downside Java really has is that it’s a bit harder to “hack on” a dynamic, evolving JSON structure so it may be a bad fit for organizational reasons if your company lacks a cohesive, mature Engineering staff.