[phillipcarter]

>I remember when I didn’t have to restart VS 30 times a day, and memorize which build errors actually aren’t errors, and do random sequences of events to work around bugs, and memorize which unsuppressable warnings are legitimate and which are not. Before those days, Visual Studio was indeed an incredible accomplishment.

This is because the software you're building today is far more complicated than before (from the IDE's perspective), and it doesn't do a good job of keeping up. There's a reason why so many people jump to VSCode these days - it gives you less bells and whistles, but it won't blow up on you when you try to do something moderately complex.