Stop IntelliJ polluting Project tool window with module names?

There is a related feature request open in IntelliJ IDEA issue tracker:

• IDEA-82965 Clean module names

Feel free to vote/comment.

As a newcomer to both IntelliJ and Maven, I also found the module names to be noisy. Perhaps I'll need them later, but for now I needed to be able to focus on the file directory structure and just needed them gone. Switching from "Project" to "Project Files" did the trick. The Project Files view has an option in its Options Menu to Show Modules that I was able to disable. Maven module information is no longer visible. It might not be the perfect long term solution, as I don't fully understand the difference in the views yet, but it did reduce the as-yet-unnecessary information I was being bombarded with.

(Thanks to https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-126014 for pointing this out while working on a similar issue.)