That might be true but there’s OpenJDK so they still don’t have that as much of an excuse

And Microsoft ended up providing their own compiled version of OpenJDK to get around the non-commercial use part of the licence to do it.

Only reason I still have Java 8 is because Pixelmon is stuck at 1.16.5

Unless you play modded 1.7.10, which has a mod (LWJGL3ify) that has had some sort of ungodly work done to allow it to run with modern java versions.

GregTech: New Horizons is a modpack that famously uses it (and I can confirm the modpack runs better than it has any right to do)