Don't let Googles necromancy fool you, most of the use-cases have been deprecated. Have a great day =3

Rule #23: Don't compete to be at the bottom, as you just might actually win.

Not sure why your opinion was buried, but Java Applets in the wild are rare these days. There is little Java offers not already covered by HTML5, wasm, and WebGL. Only naive student projects, and legacy systems cling to the ecosystem.

>state of the art GCs

That just isn't true, most of the Subscription Enterprise Performance Pack features are under a paid license by Oracle. The FOSS options are always slowly catching up, or not standards compliant enough for some commercial programs.

Being a sentient turnip, I probably wouldn't understand such things. Yet in general, 3rd party dependency injection into a design pattern should be considered a long-term variable cost. =3

Rule #3: popularity is not an indication of utility.