Just up thread from your comment, someone commented in a positive way on the infinite customisability of vi.
So which is preferable - customisability or very limited feature set?
So which is preferable - customisability or very limited feature set?
But I would not expect a large percentage of developers to want to do that. I've used IDEs as well, and they're mostly fine, and work really well for lots of people. Many IDEs are pretty damn customizeable too, though most people may not change many settings.
There is no general answer that will answer which is preferable.
It is easy for people to come up with features they want or a customisation and they don't care for the cost of actually maintaining that feature or customisation.
I work on building SaaS platform, we had multiple customers for whom we build custom features and they paid for development of those features. Not fun part is after 2-3 years those customers are gone (for example employees at customer rotated and they switched to something totally different) — but now we are left with dead feature no one is paying for supporting, some are easy to remove, some are not.