For as long as I remember IDEs have had said drag-and-drop interfaces, usually centered around the coding of GUIs, and no one has said that just because an IDE

For as long as I remember IDEs have had said drag-and-drop interfaces, usually centered around the coding of GUIs, and no one has said that just because an IDE has a visual form editor it's not programming. You're the one making up the distinction and arguing against it. The primary reason that not everything has turned into a drag-and-drop interface is that it's highly inefficient. It remains a fact that compared to manually hunting for class Socket in tab bars and scrollable lists, just so I can drag it and drop it somewhere, it's far easier to just use your keyboard and type "new Socket" in your code, especially with autocompletion at your service.