When it comes to IDEs, small and easy = uncompetitive. Most users want to use the IDE that saves them the most time and has the features they want, they are no

When it comes to IDEs, small and easy = uncompetitive. Most users want to use the IDE that saves them the most time and has the features they want, they are not concerned with implementation complexity because that’s someone else’s job. If you reduce all the complexity of a competitive IDE to a protocol then you get something as complicated as LSP. That’s just how it is.