My issue with Xcode isn't a lack of features, its the fact that the features don't reliably work. And not the advanced stuff, the very basic features. I routinely have issues with stuff like clicking through classes or syntax highlighting.

Another thing thats highly annoying is that compile errors don't get properly cleared on builds, so if there are multiple errors, it might just be that one of them is a real error, but the others are stale.

Lately I've been working with Swift Packages, and now restarting Xcode many times a day is part of my workflow - otherwise compile errors persist.

Ive been in iOS for a decade now, so mostly I don't get hung up one these issues, I know how to clean the "derived data" folder, I know how to jiggle it "just so" to get it to do what I want. But still its frustrating that the most important tool in my job is doomed to be moderately broken forever.

It might be a "grass is greener" scenario, but whenever I hop to IntelliJ, I don't encounter any of these kinds of problems.

Oh, and BTW, if you want to check Xcode out for yourself and have trouble downloading it, its not you - Xcode is like 20GB big. I guess you need lots of space for the world's most broken syntax highlighting algorithm...