Usage is important, has all editors live and die by their community. Intellij is less dependant on them, as they develop their most important features themselve

Usage is important, has all editors live and die by their community. Intellij is less dependant on them, as they develop their most important features themselves, but third-party plug-ins are still mandatory nowadays. That's my take, anyways. I'm biased as I personally wouldn't use Intellij if not for the community that made Emacs mode plugins for it. I also tend to costumize more than your average programmer. But tooling becomes broader and more complex year after year (too complex, maybe), so I don't see in the futur any company being self sustained on that front.