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Nope is a very quite good example, because one can compare it to Emacs, vim, Sublime Text loaded with a similar set of plugins.

And it isn't an IDE, rather a programmer's text editor.

For decades people complained that Emacs was huge, bloated, etc. Now there are bigger web pages

“Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping” must be an alien sentiment to so many younger techies.

Emacs is an alien phenomenon to younger techies. Who would use an editor that's older than their dad?

There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better."

William Ralph Inge wrote that in 1931, but it has never been more true than when applied to modern technologies today.

They are using an Unix descendant probably as old as his grandpa in their pockets.

TTY's date back to the Victorian era. AUX cables date back to the XIX century, too.

Most silverware design at home date back to 1800-1900.

Except I don't need an application in 2020 hardware to replicate my Emacs experience in 1995 hardware, with hardly any improvement worth mentioning.

It seems a bit unfair if your computing environment is faster than an 0.0125 MIPS KA-10 though doesn’t it?

I use emacs exclusively but VScode is way snappier when dealing with JSX syntax at least