I think it is just a matter of taste. I've never found an IDE that didn't try to be way to magic for my tastes. I prefer combining my choice of lower level tool

I think it is just a matter of taste. I've never found an IDE that didn't try to be way to magic for my tastes. I prefer combining my choice of lower level tools in ways I find useful. So IDEs aren't the competition for people like me. There is competition though, VSCode, Atom, lime, kakoune, etc. It's just that vim and emacs are the classics, so they get discussed a lot.