I agree that you should write tools to improve the workflows you actually have. But this post, as I read it, is not written from the point of view of narrow pro

I agree that you should write tools to improve the workflows you actually have. But this post, as I read it, is not written from the point of view of narrow problems and solutions — or rather, it is, but it is trying to be something else. It is talking about The Evolution of the IDE. And from that point of view I think my criticism is appropriate.