gcrider,
For Java EE 8, projects, Maven is the only option in our wizard as we stopped shipping the libraries with MyEclipse (a decision that applies not just for Java EE 8 projects). If you choose Java EE 7, you can still choose the older, non Maven structure.
If you do need to create a non Maven Java EE 8 project, let us know and I could think of some workarounds you could apply.