I used Visual Studio a lot until 3 years ago, to the point that I was almost addicted to Intelisense. I'd answer yes but it is not just Visual Studio, it is th

I used Visual Studio a lot until 3 years ago, to the point that I was almost addicted to Intelisense. I'd answer yes but it is not just Visual Studio, it is the whole comfortable, automated, well integrated and productive environment of MS tools: VS, .Net, SQL Server, ASP .Net, C#, etc. But that can be said about all sorts of sophisticated, strongly integrated and powerful tools, not only Microsoft's. The whole XCode/Swift/Apple ecosystem is not very far off. The good thing is that these tools will never be the ultimate answer. Computing environment changes and that moves people away from their comfort zones and forces them to try new environments.