[alkonaut]

The benefit of an IDE is integrating compiler/editor/debugger/test runner/linter/profiler/source control/etc

If these things somehow prevent you from writing code that is as good as it would be without these integrations then what on earth were you doing? Apart from the “copilot” like things (which almost no one uses and which is orthogonal to the concept of IDEs, any editor can have that) what is “IDE-driven development”? Taking the first autocomplete suggestion after typing a dot in Java? instead of what? Reading docs? It’s not like the IDE having autocompletion for valid method names is forcing your hand to blindly take the first one or the wrong one? This reads a bit like that rant against syntax highlighting making developers bad.