> My point still stands that the community and open architecture are more important than any one editing feature.
No, it doesn't, because it's essentially a matter of opinion, not an objective fact that can be measured and proven. You prefer to have an open architecture and a community of enthusiasts. I prefer to have most of my editor features available out of the box, and modal editors just confuse me.
At the end of the day, developer productivity is not a function of their editor of choice, so what matters is that each developer is comfortable in the environment they work in, whether that be Vim, Emacs, IntelliJ, or VS Code.
Learning curves are uncomfortable, so by your logic we should all always take the path of least resistance and use the tool that makes things easy up front without considering the long term benefits of using something like Vim or Emacs. I find this to be counterproductive to having a great career as a software engineer.
Rapidly assimilating difficult to understand concepts and technologies is an imperative skill to have in this field. Personally, I find the whole notion of Vim being difficult to learn, or not "ready out of the box" perplexing. Writing some code that's a few hundred lines or less, where it's mostly just importing git repos, is easy. Vim has superb documentation. How hard must regular programming be if it's difficult to just understand how to configure a text editor?
It's not that configuring the editor is hard, it's that it's unnecessary—the only thing you've been able to identify that I'm missing by using IntelliJ is an ideology and a community, neither of which are important to me in a text editor.
If it matters to you, that's fine—use whatever you're comfortable with! I just don't understand why you feel the need to shame others for choosing to focus their energy on something else.
No, it doesn't, because it's essentially a matter of opinion, not an objective fact that can be measured and proven. You prefer to have an open architecture and a community of enthusiasts. I prefer to have most of my editor features available out of the box, and modal editors just confuse me.
At the end of the day, developer productivity is not a function of their editor of choice, so what matters is that each developer is comfortable in the environment they work in, whether that be Vim, Emacs, IntelliJ, or VS Code.