Totally agree. Over time, everyone develops a particular style of working with their favourite editor/tools and it becomes very difficult to move away after a point.
I worked with Java on Eclipse for 8 years, and I am taking a self-imposed break from it and working with Java on VIM for the past 2 months. There are benefits to both approaches (editor vs. IDE) but the main thing I notice is that I am far less productive with VIM (because I am unfamiliar with it) and I frequently fight back a strong urge to go back to eclipse (for debugging, refactoring and object relation checking/mapping). I guess this is the kind of thing that keeps making everyone go back to their favourite IDE/editor.