Doing professional Java dev with Eclipse since &#x27;10, never had any serious issues with Eclipse. IMHO, the biggest Eclipse-related issues I&#x27;ve had were with dodgy 3rd party plugins.<p>I find that people who &quot;HATE&quot; Eclipse passionately often don&#x27;t understand how to use it properly. E.g... why is it taking a long time to build? Well, you enabled &quot;Build automatically&quot; in the project settings of your 900KLOC project...<p>Anyway, I&#x27;ve had this debate many times, I have no interest in having it again. I am just happy Eclipse works well for my needs, so I have no reason to worry about IntelliJ, SaaS licensing or whatever.<p>I would just encourage people who are unhappy about the changes to give Eclipse another shot -- who knows, maybe you will like it the second time around.