Why are you attacking me? I just put some motivation for myself and maybe someone else to switch to an IDE.
Is this mandating tools thing a problem where you are working?
How did that affect you?
Why do you feel attacked? You aren't your ideas, and in this case you had a bad idea.
You said that people not having an IDE was "bridge too far" meaning that people should always have them. We already had examples of where that simply isn't true so your idea was demonstrated as wrong. Own it get a better idea and move on. I certainly had until I went through my past comments looking for childiah arguments and found one.
