Why Java does not allow overriding equals(Object) in an Enum?

Question

I\'ve noticed that the following snippet...

@Override
public boolean equals(Object otherObject) {
    ...
}

...is not allowed for an Enum,

Answer 1

It is precisely because the Java designers could not think of any conceivable use case for overriding Enum.equals(Object) that that method is declared as final - so that such overriding would be impossible.