Almost nothing in your IDE is "best in class": there are easier terminals, quicker searches, smarter diff tools, quicker editors, faster test runners, etc. What

Almost nothing in your IDE is "best in class": there are easier terminals, quicker searches, smarter diff tools, quicker editors, faster test runners, etc. What makes your IDE good is that all these mediocre parts are integrated, understand each other, can be used without learning yet another tool, and there's a big community sharing know-how about taming the Frankenstein's monster you chose. Still, many parts are clunky and will frustrate people who use it once every few years. An ERP like Workday is the IDE for an enterprise (and a safe default like VSCode & co). Any single component is always worse than an entire startup laser-focused on that problem/process (e.g., ATS), but for most business processes, "satisfying" is much better than "optimizing". When a business grows, the range of problems they need to address increases rapidly, like the surface area of a balloon being inflated. "Good enough" is good enough until it becomes so painful as to become a top problem for the CEO or the HR Head, and "which ATS we use" never crosses that threshold. Yes, getting new talent is important, but ATS friction is not a big contributor - Google/Netflix could use anything, and their pipeline would not change in either direction, so the main levers are elsewhere.