> I don't like it.

I agree. I don't like writing HTML either. That being said ....

> It gives me pain in my hand muscles to have to hold Shift and write those symbols all the time. It also bores me and annoys me.

I use vim, and with some macros and vimscript in my config, tags are not hard to write (especially if you're willing to make a ftplugin abusing the leader key + first letter of tag to automatically write the common tags).

Even without vim, I was pleasantly surprised at how VSCode (using some HTML plugin) handled raw HTML editing.

You don't need to ever hit the shift key if using vim, and you get pretty similar autocomplete in VSCode (and I assume other editors too).