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My experience is that being a domain expert and simplicity of dev tools has absolutely nothing to do with each other. At the end of the day you have to understand the problem in order to implement it.

Whether you write it in Ruby, Java, Go, Assembler really doesn't change this. It just means you may take longer to do it.

And your logic falls apart. If simple dev tools translate to greater productivity then how do you explain the proven benefits of IDEs with all of their "complex" features.