I preferred Eclipse to Intellij because it was free, and free meant that everyone based their software on it, and once you learned it, for example, if you knew

I preferred Eclipse to Intellij because it was free, and free meant that everyone based their software on it, and once you learned it, for example, if you knew Eclipse you knew the Scala IDE, the Salesforce IDE, Mulesoft, Teiid, Red Hat JBoss development, and many more. VSCode has taken over the "everyone extends it" space. When you know your way around VSCode you're good to go on a lot of the software projects you work on today.