[Zigurd]

When I was first writing Java for feature phones I much preferred Netbeans to Eclipse mainly because Netbeans avoided presenting large numbers of nonsensical commands in the menus. That is, Netbeans behaved much more like a proper GUI. Both Netbeans and Eclipse suffer from adapting command line interfaces to a GUI, and it's hard to do that and to filter out nonsensical combinations of command line flags reflected in the way those options are presented in a GUI. But, in addition to that challenge, Eclipse's modularity-over-usability philosophy hampers it more.