Clearly you haven’t been part of the group that had to track down where Java could be installed in a jumble of workstations and servers, because it was installed as part of an application that may or may not have advertised Java as its third-or-fourth level dependencies.

It also seems you are forgetting just how bad early Java was, from a programming and user standpoint. Java errors like NullPointerException became a meme because they were so prevalent in user space, and required so much energy and time to get things working. As a result, people typically refused to update any part of Java once their app was working, to avoid breaking things. And that was _if_ the install was registered with a package manager or Windows Update so updates could be reported.