Spring Tools Suite, JPA project and the JPA facet

Question

I am using a fresh install of STS 3.8.3 and I am unable to add the JPA facet to an EJB project:

If I try to create a JPA project, I cannot find that option:

Answer 1

Upon further investigation I discovered that the Eclipse Web Tools Platform at eclipse update site http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/repository/neon includes the following:

Why is this no longer configured in STS? That is really too bad and not a good decision in my opinion.