There are always tradeoffs but for me, I feel like lack of autocomplete encourages people to use shorter less descriptive names for identifiers. I am a believe

There are always tradeoffs but for me, I feel like lack of autocomplete encourages people to use shorter less descriptive names for identifiers. I am a believer in using as descriptive identifiers as possible to make the semantics of your code as clear as possible. If this gives rise to 5-word+ identifiers, so be it, providing it is done tastefully (and not for verbosity's sake). As typing 10+ characters per function call/variable call can get tiring, lack of autocomplete can leads incentivizes the use of shorter names which runs counter to this philosophy, and leads to code being harder to read. (IMHO)