Of course there&#x27;s much more to software engineering than entering and editing text, and you&#x27;ll need to make a judgment call based on your priorities. I do more than web development, so I don&#x27;t think your &quot;web dev bias&quot; applies to me. I merely find disagree with your absolutism:<p>&gt; It is an utter waste of time compared to point-click-go-go-go.<p>If you don&#x27;t have free time to devote to learning an editor, then that&#x27;s fine. I was referring to those who spend most of their time programming (i.e. at an editor&#x2F;terminal).<p>As an aside, I&#x27;m not sure why you keep mentioning web development. Of all the things that I do, web development requires the least amount of code. Other things have vastly bigger codebases. But yes, if most of your time is spent doing R&amp;D, then you won&#x27;t benefit much from improving your engineering tools.