I think that is both fair and unfair. Fair because what you say is absolutely true. But unfair because if you stick to the non-bloatware libraries, Java is very good, very fast and surprisingly productive. For me, that stack is Guava, Jetty, Jersey, Gson, Guice.

I believe though that you can make poor library choices in any language & framework. With languages that have been around for a while, there are a lot of bad libraries...