* should hopefully be rare.
   *
   * <p>TODO(b/147144588): We are currently also missing the methods inherited from {@link
   * AnnotatedElement}, which {@code TypeVariable} began to extend only in Java 8. Those methods
   * refer only to types present in Java 7, so we could implement them in {@code TypeVariableImpl}

                   Why? At some point, presumably after
                   https://github.com/google/guava/commit/e06a8cec65815599e510d7f9c1ea9d2a8eaa438a,
                   builds with JDK8 began failing animal-sniffer with the error:

                   Failed to check signatures: Bad class file .../CollectionFuture$ListFuture.class

                   One way of dealing with that would be to disable