I don't think I'd call that an antipattern, tbh. Lots of things did this - I remember our CIO bought us all fancy IDE thingies back in the early J2EE days; I f

I don't think I'd call that an antipattern, tbh. Lots of things did this - I remember our CIO bought us all fancy IDE thingies back in the early J2EE days; I forget what it was, JBuilder, maybe? Everyone was using Eclipse (or us greybeards sticking to our emacs and ((neo)v)im, by then so we ALL used them as monitor stands.