Most of the things IDEs provide are unnecessary, and ultimately harm the developer by permitting skill atrophy of one sort or another. My opinion (obviously, an

Most of the things IDEs provide are unnecessary, and ultimately harm the developer by permitting skill atrophy of one sort or another. My opinion (obviously, and perhaps controversially). There are some exceptions (e.g., because the other tooling is garbage, one might consider Visual Studio "necessary" for building certain applications on Windows), but not many.