I used Visual Studio for 20 years or so and came to rely on the wizards / automatic things that it provides for .NET development i.e. the right-click deploy con

I used Visual Studio for 20 years or so and came to rely on the wizards / automatic things that it provides for .NET development i.e. the right-click deploy container to AWS function that comes with the Visual Studio AWS toolkit is pretty good, but frustrating because you are limited in how the deployment occurs. Turns out I was much more productive when I switched to mixing in a lot of CLI after I trialled VSCode. Now, I think I would rather have a mix of a less capable IDE (i.e. a glorified editor) and rely more on CLI where it's appropriate. It's a more flexible approach and you get to understand what is going on under the hood, which means you have a better shot at scripting the more complicated bits of your build process.