To me it sounds like he/she was saying that mediocre programmers have to rely on IDE features and that various excellent programmer realized they can write bett

To me it sounds like he/she was saying that mediocre programmers have to rely on IDE features and that various excellent programmer realized they can write better code without it. Before that the statement was that it is bad for project if a IDE in needed to navigate it. Maybe I am steelmanning too much but it could have simply meant to indicate the existence of a trend that move people toward IDEs and another trend that moves people away from IDEs