Comment by oooyay

I think the way people use IDEs is a lot deeper than just reducing them down to "purist" or "ideologist". That sounds a tad bit dismissive for something that is essentially your trade tool. It's akin to saying all keyboards are created equal because they have the same keys. The way you lay the thing out and the perspective that you build it for matters quite a lot. Distilled in a quote, "the whole is greater than the sum of the parts."

I got used to JetBrains' key mappings when I was at my last company, I also adored their debugger. My new company uses VSCode and I started down the venture of remapping all of them to JetBrains keys. I ended up with a lot of collisions and things that no longer made sense because the keys were mapped using a different perspective when laying them out. I'm sure I'm not alone being in a pool of engineers that primarily navigate using their keyboard.

VSCode's debugger is better now, but it still doesn't really stand up to JetBrains'. On the other hand, launching VSCode on a remote box is much easier and their configuration is much more portable with their JSON based settings files. I like using VSCode, but it took me months to get up to speed with how I navigated, and more generally operated with, JetBrains' IDEs.