But how did we get to the point when a full-source patch is even acceptable? Back in the day I’d come to this guy to ask why a single feature modified every place and question their understanding of what we use version control for. Why do we give a fuck about some funny IDEs which do not get it either?

That points us to the source of all the complexity we have now: it’s not newbies who broke things, it was tooling written by complete idiots.