Applying the "make it an option" tactic to all questions of UI is how one ends up with a preference menu like Eclipse's. It's a tradeoff, and "I'm on the losing end of the tradeoff" doesn't mean the wrong decision was made.
I think that the second sentence mischaracterises my argument (I haven't said anything, though my opinion is probably clear, about whether this is the right or wrong decision); but I appreciate the first sentence. I have been arguing the drawbacks of one extreme of the trade-off (bundle everything!), but it's worthwhile to observe, as you did, that the other extreme (prompt for everything!) is equally silly—so that really, I think, what we're all debating is what is the appropriate point in the middle, not at which end we should live.
