> The issue is not so much senior devs, but new devs. If they start off with things like that, there' so much magic under the hood, they won't understand how anything works. They don't understand they don't own shit until it's too late.

Any good CS/Engineering program should have the students build and use a dev environment they configured to their liking.

If the only dev environment used is wrapped into some IDE magic I would be very skeptical of the program.