Unless I misunderstood you, this does not sound like the opposite experience, but the same experience. You say that (for Java) you found the IDE, IntelliJ, better than the editors vim, Emacs, Atom, VSCode.
No I was saying that I found that certain kinds of languages (verbose, boilerplate-y languages like Java) benefit from an IDE to automate the boilerplate away while more concise languages (like Common Lisp or Haskell) benefit very little from having an actual IDE vs. a simple text editor.