Umm...Java is extremely conservative in adding new features. Not really sure you can compare to Swift that throws 10x the features in with every major release.
I’m trying to imagine using it without the stream API just shuts my entire brain down. Records arrived pretty recently and are already essential for me.
You will always have to pay me to program Java, but you’d have to pay me 5x my current salary to do it in Java 8 or earlier.