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Then the problem isn't IDEs cripple productivity, it is simply that one may not be operating at a scale that benefit from using them.

There are many decent open source IDEs (e.g. NetBeans and Eclipse for Java).

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... and IDEA community edition is also free. There's no reason to not choose any of the major IDEs on the basis of cost. You can get free and quite workable editions of all of them, and they're open source as well, so the "moral quandary" is avoidable unless it's artificial.

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