I really liked Dropwizard. It had a philosophy of picking a set of tools that could help people get up and running with a java web application quickly and that would serve them well for a long time, choosing the best tool for the job.
Then Spring boot came along where they defaulted to the much fatter Tomcat, apparently just to be different, and then went down the list of libraries and instead of picking the best one, they picked the Spring one.
I never understood that philosophy, but it won out. It looked at lot to me like no one ever got fired for choosing IBM/Microsoft. But it was so much worse. Other frameworks have improved on what Dropwizard offered for startup times, etc. but still don't seem to have gained the traction to unsettle Spring.