A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
With JEP 396, all illegal-access operations are disabled, "except for those enabled by other command-line options, e.g., --add-opens". However, it's possible for Java code to enable such operations without having to specify the appropriate command-line options.

Link to hack: https://github.com/rzwitserloot/lombok/commit/9806e5cca4b449159ad0509dafde81951b8a8523