The counter to your position: You optimize your dev environment once, and it pays dividends. Relative to the return the initial cost of optimization is negligib

The counter to your position: You optimize your dev environment once, and it pays dividends. Relative to the return the initial cost of optimization is negligible. Especially when with editors like vim my configuration file is stored in github, so I can literally replicate my precise editor's configuration, with all my personal tweaks and plugins, in 30 seconds, on any computer with internet on it.