I guess, thinking about it some more, I find it kind of insulting. In the end, the source we write is text in ordinary files, and all the fancy tooling you can

I guess, thinking about it some more, I find it kind of insulting. In the end, the source we write is text in ordinary files, and all the fancy tooling you can put in your IDE/editor only improves your odds of writing the _correct_ text, it doesn't change the fundamental nature of the task. You wouldn't tell a carpenter that they can use whatever hammer they think best for a given task (well, I wouldn't, anyway), so why would it be OK to tell an engineer how to put the bytes on the disk? Now granted what they are saying here is the opposite, that you can pick your own tool, but that still implies that that choice is a privilege that they extend and could presumably retract if they wanted. Arguably it is in itself a small thing, but to me that still says unflattering things about their attitude towards their engineers.