[TheBoff]

Equally, I'll bet that no startup has ever failed because the developers spent too long configuring their editors.

Why the hell does it matter so much to you that people enjoy being good at using a powerful tool? If you don't want to see editor articles, downvote them, or move to another website, or filter them out (either mentally, or programatically).

[ecaradec]

Actually, I think that a bunch of startups failed because of not configuring their editor, not writing tests, not doing code reviews and refactoring, not automating anything and generally by not taking the time to clean up things.

[alttab]

Maybe not - I'll give you that. I do imagine startups fail frequently because they focus on problems that aren't actually problems. Considering the level of debate about code editors here on HN its not too much of a stretch that as an industry we get distracted by things that are generally not that important in the overall scope of things.