Lastly Eclipse is THE best thing since sliced bread. I LOL'ed when you mentioned vim/emacs in the same sentence. Have you actually used Eclipse on a big code base? It's introspection is such a productivity booster. I've not used jetbrains in a decade, but nothing else out there beats it, hands down. Both in terms of speed and quality.
My tool of choice for Java is however IntelliJ, which is simply light years ahead of Eclipse (IMHO).
I agree.
Eclipse seems to always become unstable once enough plugins are installed. After a few updates and removals it ends up tipping over regularly. I suspect the underlying OSGi plugin system is a tricky thing to get right.
Intellij IDEA seems to "just work".
That said, I prefer coding in Clojure with Aquamacs but I've yet to get Clojure into a production system.
Yoxos allows the creation of eclipse profile that make it easier to have stable eclipse.
If you have a lot of eclipse users, I think yoxos is the way to go.
But I still use IntelliJ at home :)
NB: I m talking about this yoxos: https://yoxos.eclipsesource.com/