The point I was making was against conflating optimizing tooling and wasting time not solving problems. Not about going with an IDE or not. Everyone works diff

The point I was making was against conflating optimizing tooling and wasting time not solving problems. Not about going with an IDE or not. Everyone works differently. For most tasks, I prefer Emacs. But for pairing, VS code may be more familiar to others. And it’s hard to get rid of Android Studio and XCode if you’re doing mobile development. No one can judge workflow and tooling choices as long as the results are in.