alt Hacker NewsLanguages, language tools, language communities and language reputations are kinda inseparable.
You can write Java without using incredibly huge class, function, and variable names. You don't have to apply complex design patterns everywhere, or use a complicated framework you barely understand. You don't have to write code that produces 50-line stack traces. I don't have to import a dozen dependencies each with a dozen dependencies of their own, creating an endless security update treadmill. You don't have to write code that needs a gigabyte of RAM for the smallest microservice. Problems like long garbage collection pauses can be solved.
But if I take a job writing Java software? Probably I'm going to be handed a codebase written the way most Java developers write Java code. And I'd better make peace with that, or find a different job.
I agree. Sometimes the best you can do to cope with the sprawling ecosystems around programming languages and having to deal with convoluted codebases and inefficient programs, is sit down at home and building something simple (if you can spare the time and energy). That is what I do every now and then and it is incredibly satisfying to be able to explore how therapeutic programming can be when you are not boxed in.
I think this is not how companies work though, because they do not operate based on your views alone. And getting all people to agree on some of the topics you mentioned (e.g. importing dependencies vs. rolling your own implementations) is an incredibly complex task.