This is a false dichotomy. You say "developers who rely on heavily automated/magic tooling" and "those who use the terminal + a basic text editor.". What of tho

This is a false dichotomy. You say "developers who rely on heavily automated/magic tooling" and "those who use the terminal + a basic text editor.". What of those that use heavily automated tooling but understand it? Of course people that understand stuff are better than people that don't, but this isn't directly correlated to terminal and IDE. > I know a lot of people will disagree but my advice to more junior guys is always get rid of the toys and learn the tools. You could make the same argument for writing assembly by hand, which will surely improve your skills. But that doesn't mean that a compiler is a toy. Those that learn and know the tools know their value. Senior developers at my work have a deep knowledge of lots of tools, because these tools can be very useful and save you a lot of time. They also build tools for others, to encode their knowledge and make everyone save some time.