Why is Spring's ApplicationContext.getBean considered bad?

Question

I asked a general Spring question: Auto-cast Spring Beans and had multiple people respond that calling Spring\'s ApplicationContext.getBean() should be avoided

Answer 1

however, there are still cases where you need the service locator pattern. for example, i have a controller bean, this controller might have some default service beans, which can be dependency injected by configuration. while there could also be many additional or new services this controller can invoke now or later, which then need the service locator to retrieve the service beans.