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While typing this comment I pressed/swiped on several words to finish them.

One reads much faster than they write, I don't really see a problem with easily guessable auto complete.

Even if you read much faster than you type, it's easier to read fewer lines of code than dozens of plumbing boilerplate.

Sure, we can find factors for "verbosity increase" and "difficulty to understand a line" where what you say is also true.

I think that java found a decent spot where both factors are low. It's not a particularly verbose language, especially in modern times (records, type inference, I even mention lambdas because some people live in caves), like if you do POJOs and stuff with getter setters than you get a no information increasing extra 3+3 lines of code per field and that's most of it.

Method bodies are not more verbose than other typical languages.

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