The author has 100% more experience than someone who opened it up one time last week for funsies.
But I will say that if someone is accustomed to A, and they are forced to use B for a short period, it is incredibly common for those users to bitch and gripe about how terrible B is simply due to lack of acclimation. The fact that they develop for Android infrequently makes their observations less valid to me, not more.
Yes, Android Studio requires a lot of memory, but welcome to 2017 where entry computers have 8GB. Beyond that, their complaints are whiny "this is strange and unfamiliar and threatening to me" bullshit.
There are real complaints here.