> Like, just look at the amount of results for "Minecraft" "slow"

My niece was playing it just fine on a decade-old Mac mini. I've played it a bit on a Raspberry Pi.

The sales figures suggest my nice's experience is fairly typical, and things such as you quote are more like the typical noise that accompanies all things done in public — people complaining about performance is something which every video game gets. Sometimes the performance even becomes the butt of a comic strips' joke.

If Java automatically causing low performance, neither my niece's old desktop nor my Pi would have been able to run it.

If you get me ranting on the topic: Why does BG3 take longer to load a saved game file than my 1997 Performa 5200 took to cold boot? Likewise Civ VI, on large maps?