Cen,
                
                
                It's hard to get a particular statement
                  or desire from your many points. 
                
                
                
                
                I get a "Jakarta EE bad, Microprofile
                  cool" sentiment, but that is not new.
                Without Java EE there would be neither
                  Spring nor Microprofile. 
                MP is a lot like Spring, but it is still
                  in a very early stage, comparable to Spring 1.2 rather
                  than 2.0, especially when you look at true adoption or
                  answers to surveys. 
                
                
                Plus Jakarta EE 8 is 1 or sometimes 2
                  steps ahead of Microprofile specs that have not been
                  upgraded to use Java EE 8 yet. It's a "Dependency
                  Hell" because some need CDI 1.2, others already
                  require 2.x
                A large number of Spring projects
                  already uses the new Jakarta EE specs. ;-D
                
                
                You discovered that EclipseLink has more
                  than Bugzilla and the more recent important ones
                  should be there. Bugzilla has many, but Hibernate ORM
                  alone got 2861 open issues in its JIRA, so does that
                  mean you consider both abandonware? ;-)
                
                
                The "incremental vs. Big bang"
                  discussion was about refactoring from javax to jakarta
                  namespaces and not how many new specs Jakarta EE 9, 10
                  or 11 might include. For 8 everything was put in a new
                  Maven Groupid but that is not the biggest effort.
                Think of JPA alone there are many XML
                  files referring to Java or JCP. 
                Whether all get changed with Jakarta EE
                  9 or only the most commonly used remains to be seen.
                
                
                Werner