Note. I’m not sure if it’s on-topic since it concerns a specific programming language, not software engineering in general. However, I decided to give it a try

Suppose I create a closeable resource with a try-with-resources block. In case something happens, I want to log an informative message in the catch block. The problem is I need a reference to the resource which is scoped to the try block. Try-with-resources can’t accept a non-final reference

try (MyResource resource = getMyResource()) {
    // do something with the resource
} catch (MyResourceException e) {
    logger.error("This happened to {}: {}", /* can't do, out of scope */ resource.getName(), e.getMessage());
}

Is it a good reason to ditch try-with-resources altogether? I don’t think so

What do you recommend?

In the actual project, MyResource is a wrapper over a PreparedStatement. It helps to log an SQL query that caused an error