As someone who's gone the other way (from an IDE to a shall we say "separated" development environment), I can tell you you're wrong. For me, at least. I've se

As someone who's gone the other way (from an IDE to a shall we say "separated" development environment), I can tell you you're wrong. For me, at least. I've seen people impressively efficient in commercial IDEs, but the best coders I know all use a collection of simple, reliable, and predictable tools. EDIT: And this idea that having a superset of checked feature-boxes is superiority is at the root of the problem.