Eh, I'm not really seeing the analogy to an author, whose final product is the words on the page, so in that you are right that the kind of typewriter wont help

Eh, I'm not really seeing the analogy to an author, whose final product is the words on the page, so in that you are right that the kind of typewriter wont help much. But a developer's code isn't the final product, it' an input to an output, and good tooling can potentially make a mediocre dev better (within limits), by catching compile time bugs, by enforcing constraints, maybe, by exposing functionality (autocomplete), enabling profilers or debuggers, etc...