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Yeah, I do, unless it's small enough for me to maintain or already mainly maintained by people unaffiliated with those companies. The country they have their headquarters in is quite belligerent and they are habitually criminal, e.g. with regards to data protection rights.

If you want command line incantations you can easily invent your own program to do the edits, simple with sed or awk, more advanced with JAXB. The reason no one does is that XML editors are quite capable and in practice pom-editing isn't particularly annoying.

I agree that MICROS~1 is trying to woo developers, but in every other area I'm looking they're absolute dogshit. They seem to want to turn consumer Windows into a rent a thin client sort of deal, their strategy in acquisition seems entirely driven by the threat of anti-trust legislation when it's not clearly insane, stuff like that. If they reach a degree of developer lock-in they find sufficient I'm sure they're going to do Oracle style squeezes.