> I think Java is the best language for most medium to large projects

With this in context...

> I think Springframework is dragging Java's reputation down. I know Spring boot is better but it's such a monstrosity.

Is that really so? Spring's not the best, but it's definitely better in medium / large environments than a lot of other 1s. There are way more train wrecks to maintain that especially don't have any documentation or the libraries have gone dead.