[Pathogen-David]

This rant could've easily been written by me. I have a very strong mental model of what should happen when I press keys on the keyboard, and when that diverges from what's visible on the screen everything in my brain grinds to a halt because my "you made a typo" alarms go off.

I can't comfortably use JetBrains products because they're really bad about letting you actually disable these things. VSCode extensions also love to add their own little settings that don't respect the higher level ones. Visual Studio previews somewhat frequently ship new "helpers" like this without a way to disable them (to their credit though, they do quickly add one once you point it out.)

I too wish more apps offered a top-level "disable everything unless I explicitly enable it" setting. Figuring out where the individual settings are buried only exasperates the frustration.