So the people I’ve worked with hate Eclipse because Eclipse insists upon imposing (by default) a standard project structure on a Java project.

It gets in the way and prohibits the flexibility necessary to get work done.

And they love Maven because it imposes a standard project structure on a Java project, so (to quote the Maven web site) as “to allow a developer to comprehend the complete state of a development effort in the shortest period of time.”

What the hell?