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Is there a D IDE with good code completion and refactoring support? Last time I tried it, all that I've seen were pretty bad at it - handling the simple stuff fine, but breaking down on more complicated stuff, metaprogramming especially (kinda like most C++ IDEs did 8 years ago or so).

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Code completion yes. (DCD provides this as a library). d-mode for emacs is nice, both of the plugins for vs-code I know work. There are plugins/extensions for (i think) xcode and (i know) Jetbrains's stuff (I don't use it so i can't really comment.

Refactoring, no.

Edit: There is also a D-specific IDE called coedit, which is pretty good AFAIK

I just checked out Coedit. It looks quite nice, although I'm rather baffled that it's written in Pascal.

I assume it's forked from an existing open-source editor, but there's nothing in the source headers to say which one.

I think it's based on Lazarus.

Also a visual studio plugin

I've tried VisualD, DlangIDE, and VSCode plugin. All seemed to be handling completion very poorly, and "Go to definition" basically not at all.

Due to the high complexity of d and the small community, there are currently no "great " ides.

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