Of course it does. Believe me. I have programmed by writing code in plain text editors (vi / notepad) and compiling them on the command line and using a line e

Of course it does. Believe me. I have programmed by writing code in plain text editors (vi / notepad) and compiling them on the command line and using a line editor to fix issues. I have also used IDEs and have come to appreciate the productivity gain afforded by syntax highlighting. I like VisualStudio / VSCode but one recent issue I have had is with their parentheses/brackets/braces coloring. It doesn't add a lot of value as I am used to matching parantheses/brackets/braces using the hotkey. I find it annoying and distracting enough, but haven't bothered to research if that option can be turned off in the IDE. Syntax highlighting is very helpful if you are a polyglot programmer.