Often? It's a relatively modern language with enough functional programming features to keep mid-high blub programmers happy. Yeah there's cruft; all mature languages have cruft.

Kotlin is the obvious replacement, but the tooling isn't as good and the community isn't as large. Java keeps getting better, and in ways that diverge from Kotlin - eg, virtual threads vs async/await/coloring. From the perspective of language design, I prefer Kotlin. But I keep picking Java anyway, and I don't see that changing soon.

Go is openly hostile to functional programming. Dynamic languages aren't even in the running. Rust is too low-level for line-of-business software. C# is too Microsoft. The remaining alternatives are too obscure.