On the other hand consider this: suppose you’ve built retail business out of your house, then it grew well. And now all those conveyor belts come in very handy, right?

Sometimes project is big enough to have a lot of code, boilerplate or not. And then all that IDE automation suddenly becomes essential.

I’ve been to some huge Scala codebases, it was much harder to navigate or make changes there than shove around Java cruft with IDE.