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Definitely this. I was a long time Notepad++ fan but immediately changed tune soon as I tried VS Code.

To be fair, he's spent most of his time coding in Perl. Perl is notorious to parse.

They take pride in their masochism

It's called exercise. Plenty of people do a lot of physical exercise when they could be content to stay still, but it's good for health.

In this case, mental exercise keeps the brain healthy.

Time you spend fiddling with tools trying to replicate a tiny portion of what an IDE offers can be spent actually doing mental exercises to keep your brain healthy.

It's called working smart, not working hard.

I would absolutely fire someone who refused to use the mechanized tree harvester I provided and insisted on felling trees with an axe, and that's about where I stand with respect to insisting on using PDP-10 era text editors over an IDE.