the problem with that mindset though, is if you don't want several of these features. or you use a variety of languages and tools where the common interface is

the problem with that mindset though, is if you don't want several of these features. or you use a variety of languages and tools where the common interface is the terminal. i work professionally in Kotlin so i would never use vim over IDEA over that. but getting all sorts of other languages working in something as bulky as IDEA is a huge pain and not generally worth it. for the longest time (pre-LSP), my non-kotlin dev experience was just vim-polyglot and running watch - build in a :vsp and it gets you far.