This is so off base and irrationally elitist, you really just don't see how wrong it is. These tools do SO MUCH more than just give you a GUI for a coding syst

This is so off base and irrationally elitist, you really just don't see how wrong it is. These tools do SO MUCH more than just give you a GUI for a coding system. Code analysis, preventative suggestions, and a common look and feel for people switching languages and stacks. Yes, a lot of it can be cobbled together with open source tooling and scripts and blah blah but I want to spend my time getting shit done, not writing code to be able to write code. The 100$ a year was well worth it for the suite I had, and even double that would still be an irrelevant amount of money to me with my engineering salary. Time is money, saving time - not just my own, but the time of others on my team using similar tooling - is worth spending a little money and dropping snobbish elitism based on nothing stronger than "I must be smart because I know how something works".