I'm a huge fan of the JetBrains IDEs, and while I appreciate the thought of modernizing, I really don't like this approach. Their IDEs are extremely powerful a

I'm a huge fan of the JetBrains IDEs, and while I appreciate the thought of modernizing, I really don't like this approach. Their IDEs are extremely powerful and provide many useful tools, and hiding them behind meaningless icons or burying them deep in a smaller number of context menus doesn't do any favors for either discoverability or ease of use. My understanding of simplified UI is that it's meant to be accessible and inclusive to those who have other priorities in life than to spend time learning about the technology and tools they have to use. As a professional developer though, I'm comfortable using computers. It's a core part of the job, and new developers will have to learn this too. It's not helpful to make the UI look prettier by increasing margins (and thus decreasing information density), and it's not helpful to hold our hands and put away the scary text and initially confusing features - on the contrary, that's limiting and counter-productive. I pay for PyCharm, and if I liked VSCode better, I'd use that instead - it's free. I trust JetBrains enough to believe they won't completely replace the existing UI without giving us an option to keep using the current one, but I wish the resources going to developing this were spent in a different design direction or on other improvements.