Comment by nunobrito

For me it's the opposite: If I had to write the code that I usually use lambdas for in any other way then _that_ would be very difficult to write and to debug.

Especially when writing JavaFX code which is full of callbacks and event handlers I really don't see any other (useful) option.

Can lambdas be misused? Of course they can - but so can every other code construct.

I bet you don't like how it looks when you put huge code blocks inside a lambda. Me neither. But that's an issue with coding style; it forces you to extract processing code into a method. I'd argue the opposite way - imperative syntax constructs make spaghetti code too easy to work with.