Nobody requires projects to pollute their codebases with getter and setter boilerplate. People do that to themselves. The OpenJDK project should not enable that nonsense further, but provide support for better programming patterns. Support for creating getters and setters is already provided by annotation processors.
Official support for compiler plugins (Lombok is an unofficial compiler plugin, not a mere annotation processor!) would effectively allow people to create dialects of Java. This would splinter and blunt the momentum that has carried the language forward for the last 30 years by fragmenting the ecosystem because for many legacy applications it will be impossible to migrate to one of the prevalent dialects.
Official support for compiler plugins (Lombok is an unofficial compiler plugin, not a mere annotation processor!) would effectively allow people to create dialects of Java. This would splinter and blunt the momentum that has carried the language forward for the last 30 years by fragmenting the ecosystem because for many legacy applications it will be impossible to migrate to one of the prevalent dialects.