>With practically all high-level langs in modern collaborative environments readability is prioritized.
Readability and verbosity are two different things. I can see how someone using Java would think that typing faster is better. But that's a reflection of poor language design choices rather than anything intrinsic to programming.
Oddly enough, I find that I type fewer keystrokes when writing Java than, for example, Python. The boring predictability of the language allows the IDE to guess what you're thinking most of the time.
Readability and verbosity are two different things. I can see how someone using Java would think that typing faster is better. But that's a reflection of poor language design choices rather than anything intrinsic to programming.