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This is not 'productivity mirage' this is just 'tooling mirage'.

Yea I'd agree. I hate configuring things or setting up custom scripts that could make things easier for me and yet I still work productive on my day 2 day tasks.

Also used neovim for 2 years or so and hated every minute of it having to configure LSPs and wwhatnot. I now use a mixture of VS Code and IntelliJ and its good enough for me.

I kept using vim motions however.

same, although I also bothered to learn the standard keybindings of the most popular IDEs of my kind of work (intellij, eclipse, netbeans, vs code). As a plus, I can get started right away on just any dev machine I come across, no expensive customisation needed.

Don't be in love with your code or your workstation. Only the endresult matters.

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