People used to drive manual. Now it’s all automatic transmission. Some cars even drive itself.
People used to proudly use Vi to write code. But now IDE is commonplace.
People used to write asm by hand. Transport Tycoon was written in assembly. But these days that would be insane.
Technological progress is an absolute thing. It produces too much convenience and wealth to ignore.
this is funny because I met many software developers who did not have a, let's call it "Unix hacker background", who only ever used Git through an IDE. Now sometimes when they need to log into some system and use the commandline they are lost because they are neither familiar with a shell environment (readline and stuff) nor the Git commands.
I guess you can work that way but that's not for me, because I want to understand stuff. Of course I also use an IDE but I don't rely on it.
Maybe in the USA. Here in Czechia, people generally hate automatic transmission cars.
> People used to proudly use Vi to write code. But now IDE is commonplace.
Plenty of developers use Vim and Neovim, which have numerous advantages over “modern” IDEs.