Not with 2 people, and it's not even clear if they are their line managers and manage them in terms of promotions, raises, hiring and so on.

Of course you won't get ignored, you'll get escorted out by security. The likelihood of a hiring manager being in the office nowadays is also very low.

Comments are not searchable and difficult to moderate. A lot of people asked follow up questions in comments.

Exactly the kind of thought that can be replaced without a loss.

And it won't get adopted any time soon due to backwards compatibility and existing code. Anybody who wanted to use it used vavr at this point.

I don't owe you anything. You can fork the project if to put feel like it. If not, fork off.

Thinking comprehension - who determines budget?

It's not HR that decides that, it's management. HR just enforces it.

Yeah, upper management and the finance department.

Query builders solve those problems without the complexity of ORMs.

Not the original responder - hibernate has had projections to solve #1 for ages, the rest are on point IMO.