Github user NicoK commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4447
FYI: the `final` keyword on methods in `final` classes is something that is
actually forbidden by the checkstyle, hence the change
Regarding the try-catch in tests (actually part of #4446): you're right, I
was too quick in arguing that stack traces are not printed - whenever there is
a `e.printStackTrace()`, it should work but at least when developing with
IntelliJ, this printout is not clickable (during debugging a failure) compared
to failing with a proper exception.
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