[DannyBee]

I mean, everything's my fault - it was overall my org, so it doesn't matter who did it in the org. That's the job :)

As for Eclipse, you are correct that at one time it had tons of users, but eclipse was dying very quickly, with no signs or possibility of recovery, well before any decision was made to intellij. People were already moving. So not sure what you are remembering there. Eclipse was dead no matter what we did. There were people that loved it (sounds like you are one of them), but at the point of deprecation, death was already clear.

Additionally, given the Android team's desire to use IntelliJ, mobile first, and all that jazz, we were going to be forced to support IntelliJ as a first class citizen no matter what.

Eclipse literally made no sense to keep going with given all that.