Being good has nothing to do with having to maintain your company’s code base that’s in Oracle’s Java SE 1.6.
You can’t just design your way out of a conflict whose solution is to change either the existing system architecture or change Java versions,
both suggestions will get you laughed out of the room.
This is on the people for using a discourse space that is not being maintained. I agree only that recent actions by it’s leadership team has be suspect.