On opening the IDE, it appears that the workflow has changed with the main screen displaying an empty white page instead of an empty project ready to edit:
Is this intended?
If so, you could use the page as a landing page. maybe display a welcome message and a hint to new users to create or open a project and maybe links to the last x projects opened and perhaps available templates.
I thought it was a bug and it got stuck, then I got it.
I proposed this as a start, so you can immediately select the choice, since it is necessarily the first thing to do, or start an existing project