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> neither does the organization have to deal with the endless yak shaving over brace style and tool choice

I hear you, but an organization that fears this, instead of Just Pick Something And Deal With It, is an organization that probably doesn't have the right people in it to succeed at any task more arduous than that.

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Conversely, and organization that imposes arbitrary choices and isn't capable of allowing people do use the tools they know best probably doesn't attract the best people. There are many different kinds of hammers, and making everyone who uses hammers use the same kind is, to say the least, counter productive.

I get where you're coming from, but frankly: nah. If you are so in-the-rut that you can't switch, say, text editors or IDEs and are compelled to have an Incredibly Normal Day about it, you're probably not actually possessed of the plasticity to be somebody I want to work with.

I use vim, IntelliJ, Visual Studio, and VSCode at least once every two weeks apiece, and it's no skin off my back to switch. Do thou likewise.

I absolutely agree with this. The plasticity is valuable, but everyone has a productivity sweet spot, and developers tend to go where they feel most productive and rewarded for that productivity.

I don't imagine the best people crying at being forced to use VSCode instead of CLion.

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