I think your concerns are correct. I realize expecting everything to fit into a favorite IDE is a bit much, but anecdotally it helps me a lot in a new or rarely

I think your concerns are correct. I realize expecting everything to fit into a favorite IDE is a bit much, but anecdotally it helps me a lot in a new or rarely used language. Assists, muscle memory finding things, autocomplete, etc. really add up in potential benefits to both productivity and correctness of what you write. This is even better when libraries are standardized. I know I lean on Pycharm hard these days, as I don't use python as much as I used to. It really helps to guide me along and spend less time getting caught in details. Everything, including the interpreter, just works.