This is the wrong thing to wish for.
It's like... wishing for "simpler times" of the pre-modern era. You know, the simpler times without dentistry and plagues that make COVID look downright pleasant. Simpler times of backbreaking manual labour, shovelling ditches by hand.
A typical computer can now process 10 billion general-purpose instructions per second. It is a power tool for the mind. Its entire purpose is to eliminate manual labour.
The fundamental concept of computerised information technology is to automate away the processing of information as much as possible.
If you don't get this, then you don't get IT at all.
There is nothing at all good, or somehow more "pure" about programming with Notepad, or VI, or whatever text editor you fancy.
This is like turning off the million dollar backhoe, stepping out of the cabin, and digging the ditch with your hands because you feel that it brings you "closer to the dirt" or something.