I felt the same way about IDEs in general, until I started using more features of CIDER (and Paredit) within Emacs for Clojure development. So many CIDER features I didn't expect to find helpful, turned out to be invaluable, and I later discovered that they're pretty much basic features of more full-featured IDEs like Jetbrains makes. So that really sold me on IDEs in general. That said, we're still using Clojure, and CIDER (plus Paredit) is still the best IDE (and path of least friction) for it, so I'm still using that.