You can extrapolate the whole "IDEs are a crutch" idea to pretty much any tool that saves time by automating something you would have had to do manually. High

You can extrapolate the whole "IDEs are a crutch" idea to pretty much any tool that saves time by automating something you would have had to do manually. High level languages hide the underlying machine code being generated, so developers become less familiar with what the CPU is really doing. But in a way that's the whole point. In the end, newbies will rely on the crutch to develop faster at the expense of not immediately understanding all that is happening behind the scenes, while more experienced developers will leverage the IDE to automate those things which they are tired of doing themselves. Eventually newbies learn what's happening under the hood.