I have not though about it from that angle. When I started developing 15-16 years ago, the IDEs were already here. I still use Eclipse daily. ;)
Also, Product Hunt, Meetup, and other early 2010s products (even HN) are functionally dead. The people having the kinda of conversations you would find value in do it in person now at Luma or Partiful events in SF, NYC, and a couple other hubs.
Heck, most HN traffic now aligns with European instead of American hours [0]
[0] - https://huggingface.co/datasets/open-index/hacker-news