That's because it's mimicking Delphi, which was mimicking Visual Basic (the first one). Just like Eclipse was one of the first of its kind. People hate changes

That's because it's mimicking Delphi, which was mimicking Visual Basic (the first one). Just like Eclipse was one of the first of its kind. People hate changes, even the slightest UI color changes are booed down. I can imagine redoing Lazarus to look like IntelliJ IDEA would be a lot of work that would be frowned upon (though I love IDEA... but I myself find it not tempting at all to switch to their "new UI" which copies VS Code and hides away my most frequently used features behind submenus and pictures, like I can't read ;-) (old man yelling at clouds)).