I kind of miss the simplicity of SharpDevelop at times... Haven't touched it in years and the Xamarin Studio (Now VS for Mac) never felt as nice to me.

These days, I spend most of my time in VS Code, I frankly don't know if it's less overhead than VS, but it's definitely more responsive. I can't stand working on web projects in VS proper. The plugin model for Code just seems to work so much better in practice. Definitely learned from the past, even if it's a web app, it still works really well compared to alternatives. Integrated terminal and unobtrusive directory tree are godsends.