Minecraft alone shows your first two points are not valid. Write a hello world app in Java, the startup time is miliseconds, the memory is not humongous.
As far as fast load time; just launching my (JVM-based) build tool (sbt) takes 7 seconds on my laptop.
Running 'Hello World' from an uncompressed class file takes 0.12s, and most software is quite a bit larger than a couple lines of bytecode in an single uncompressed class file.
The C version, by comparison, completes in 0.005s.
And it does this a lot better than the browser.