[Cthulhu_]

> Ubiquitously popular tooling tends to be extremely configurable and extremely malleable. The more control the user has over a tool, the more useful it will be to them, and the more interested they will be in using it.

I disagree; if the workflow and UI offered by the platform is good, I don't need to change it. Case in point is xcode, it's very opinionated in how people work with it, but it works.

[jdbernard]

I don't feel like Xcode is a good example of developer tooling ubiquitously popular because of developer preference. If you want to develop for iOS it's a requirement.