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