I don't think an new web page would help much.
If you listen to most recurrent critics about Eclipse, all their
hate goes to default Eclipse packaging (available bundles), default
configuration (preferences, perspectives) and missing features
(nested projects) compared to NetBeans or IntelliJ. However, most of
them understand that the community is awesome and that it is easy to
get support and that Eclipse is still the place where a lot of
innovation happens. I never heard someone complaining about the
downloads landing page.
So IMO, effort is to be done in providing a good IDE package with an
improved default configuration -eg. remove some useless features
such as CVS, show line numbers by default...-. Effort should be made
in listening more to feedback of users and give more importance to
their requests. How to know what they want? A solution could be to
create a wide-audience survey where people would be able to describe
the set of features they'd like to have enabled by default, and some
basic choices for preferences. With these reports, it would give
some clues about how to make the most relevant packages for the
various use-case.
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