I believe you, but Android Studio has come a long way since. I agree it was abysmal at first - when it didn't crash, every new update would break compatibility

I believe you, but Android Studio has come a long way since. I agree it was abysmal at first - when it didn't crash, every new update would break compatibility and your projects wouldn't build anymore etc. Right now it's pretty decent, considering, although I'm not a fan of Gradle either. By the way, even though it's a fork of IntelliJ Idea, it's ultimately shaped by Google which has sort of a tradition of realeasing alpha-stage software into the world. Remember first releases of Chrome? I do; they crashed like crazy and lacked basic functionality such as printing.