It did come across as quite condescending. The fact is that I’ve tried IDEs, many times. They aren’t a good fit for me.

If we’re doing unkind takes though, I’d say a better analogy isn’t that the non-ide users are ignorant so much as it is that the ide users are, through a lack of ability or motivation, unable to create their own tools to improve their craft, and so take whatever bland uninspiring monument to mediocrity that someone tries to sell them. Like a person who condescendingly eats ramen dry from the package and informs the person cooking a good meal that surely they must be ignorant to not realize you can buy perfectly edible food at the gas station on the corner.

Now, personally, I prefer to think better of people than that- and I assume that people are just choosing to use what works for them, and to not be a jerk about it.