There are 2 options available on the right mouse menu in the package explorer. One is to show packages in a flat view, the other in a folder view. The flat display minimizes the number of items displayed and the folder view shows all the package levels as discrete folders. In either event, the package shows as "hollow" if it's an empty folder and as "filled" if there are one or more
java classes defined in it.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.