[userbinator]

It's called exercise. Plenty of people do a lot of physical exercise when they could be content to stay still, but it's good for health.

In this case, mental exercise keeps the brain healthy.

[thrower123]

It's called working smart, not working hard.

I would absolutely fire someone who refused to use the mechanized tree harvester I provided and insisted on felling trees with an axe, and that's about where I stand with respect to insisting on using PDP-10 era text editors over an IDE.

[dmitriid]

Time you spend fiddling with tools trying to replicate a tiny portion of what an IDE offers can be spent actually doing mental exercises to keep your brain healthy.