You know, it's funny, when I was a cs student I always wondered why some of my best cs professors didn't bother using the latest and greatest tooling. As I got older I realized, my time has actual monetary value, and spending time dealing with finicky software is often not worth it. Intellij is like ~ .50c / day, and I'm way more productive with it than I am with vim (and I say this as someone who used to mostly work with straight vim in college). Maybe you don't value your time?
People in academia are notoriously disconnected from real software development, so I wouldn't use them as an example of what to do or not do.
You can be judicious with your time without avoiding any inconvenience to accomplishing a goal. Inconvenience is how you find motivation and learn new things. For 50c a day you're robbing yourself of valuable knowledge and bettering open ecosystems that are themselves fulfilling ends. If you don't put a value on learning or contributing back then I don't see why'd you'd want to be in this profession in the first place.
