There does seem to be a lot of hate for eclipse. The complaint I always hear is that it is a pain to use. Personally I’ve always liked it, even though I’ve used the other popular IDEs.
You will find old rants from me complaining about workspaces metadata, but that problem has been sorted for quite sometime now.
Eclipse is Visual Age for Smalltalk reborn, after all.
It was common to have plugins corrupt its metada, but somehow it finally became quite stable.