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People routinely become immediately productive in Visual Studio Code.

Contrast this with the potentially multi-decade journey of becoming proficient in something like vim or Emacs plus command line tools.

It is possible to improve on the old ways, from a productivity and ease of learning standpoint as well as from a standpoint of what's possible.

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Your argument might hold water, if the standard for productivity was simply churning out code. The Linux/Unix world, already has tools, like nano, for such users.

The software world, might be better served, however, if programmers slowed down, and engaged their brains, before bashing keys. I’ve solved most of the difficult problems, in my programming life, in the bath - where I can allow my mind to wander, and come up with the best solution.

Oh I don't mean around just IDEs, but really I have a ton of new guys on my team who can understand how apis work but not any futher down. Now, 90% of the time it doesn't matter but, anytime the problem is 1 layer lower it falls apart. There are so many layers when we should be reducing layers and simplifying.

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