The experimental ClassForNamePlugin was added early during jlink plugin prototyping phase, replacing Class.forName with ldc of a class literal. It's not proven to be very useful as a startup optimization, and likely to result in incorrect behavior since ldc:ing a class literal doesn't ensure class initialization like Class.forName does.

Fixing it might be worthwhile, but likely requires making something like Unsafe.ensureInitialized(Class<?>) a public API point.