As for me, I’ve bounced around quite a bit over the years. Back in uni, when I was buried in Java and heavier tooling, I lived inside the big IDEs because that was simply “how you did things.” When I moved into Ruby, RubyMine felt like the natural next step — it was the tool everyone talked about, and for good reason at the time.
But then came the 2am YouTube rabbit holes… and suddenly every experienced developer I came across seemed to be quietly preaching the gospel of Vim. Twenty-plus years of people swearing by it doesn’t happen by accident, so I gave it a go. One thing led to another, and I ended up happily in the Vim/Neovim world.
Funny how your workflow evolves — sometimes by deliberate choice, sometimes because the internet convinces you at an unreasonable hour.