As said elsewhere in this thread, every feature you describe as &quot;bloat&quot; <i>doesn&#x27;t actually run until you tell it to</i>. The features that make Visual Studio feel slow are things like IntelliSense, which is pretty goddamn core to the actual writing of code, not the fact that there&#x27;s a visual designer for a few things. And code analysis is--wait for it--a pretty hard problem that perturbs a lot of electrons to do correctly, regardless of language or what particular program is kicking it off.<p>&quot;But bloat!&quot; is <i>never</i> an argument. Point to what it actually <i>does</i> to harm your experience if you want to formulate an argument; &quot;it exists&quot; is a nonsensical kvetch.