Github user zentol commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4458
We can't do it just for final modifiers unfortunately. We _could_ look into
creating a custom checkstyle rule based on
`https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/blob/master/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/modifier/RedundantModifierCheck.java`
with minor modifications.
This should be rather straight-forward.
That said, i think that it is unlikely that these modifiers would be
removed by some auto-formatting, so they will neither clutter up diffs nor
cause any functional problems (because well, they're _redundant_ after all). We
could just keep them...
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