As I said I go back and forth between jetbrains products and vim and neovim.
As someone who crosses those boundaries I can tell you that you're dead wrong.
Im happy to sit down and write code in something like Goland. Im happy to pick pycharm to work on a LARGE python code base. But the moment that I need to deal with a JS spa, legacy code (python, ruby) and go im probably NOT going to pick intelij.
Sorry but IntelliJ is just as much plugin nonsense anything else and sometimes your going to go backwards just to get things working: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-70729/?_ga=2.1643681...
"tinkering with your vim plugins" is "tinkering with your Intellij plugins"... both involve search engines and RTFM, the former has more choice and a bit more downloading but the transition in either direction would amount to the same loss in productivity.
And I have played with VS code as well (and it too has its uses).
The only editor I dont like, is Emacs, and not because it is BAD but because you will spend more time tinkering with it than working.