> Yah but why? The things it was good at doesn’t really matter nearly as much post AI.

Pretty much the opposite. Those who disliked it usually cited having to type too much due to class verbosity and variable verbosity (the former has merit, the latter was purely a choice).

If you no longer need to type in any of the code, what better than a language with a blazing fast and scalable runtime, with excellent debugging and monitoring support.

But if you want "blazing fast" performance then there are other languages like Rust that the AI can write, and Rust runs basically everywhere Java does these days (and more) except perhaps Android, for which there are still ways around it.