<ul><li>Lombok might be doing more harm than good by encouraging developers to ignore good design and lean on shortcuts.</li><li>Java's verbosity is one of the main reasons for Lombok's popularity, as it reduces the ceremony of writing boilerplate code with annotations.</li><li>However, Lombok does not address the root problem of writing excessive boilerplate-heavy classes in the first place.</li><li>Lombok's @Data annotation, often used without much thought, can lead to the exposure of mutable internal state and violation of object-oriented principles.</li></ul>

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