What IDE do you use nowadays if not VS Code? I'm curious because I'm also using an M1 Mac and I've ran through the gamut (Sublime, PyCharm, Atom, etc).
Sublime mostly, not a fully-featured IDE I'd say. For front-end I'm using VS Code, that's only here and there, and that's where the struggle comes from.
Last time I've tried Idea/etc was quite a few years ago. It didn't feel great. But maybe I should force myself into it. Might be better on M1.
I also open regular Visual Studio every few months for C# on Windows, and while it's slow to start, the editor feels really solid, quick, and responsive.
Better showcase on how ridiculous the tech stack is would be to open a 500 line file with a code and scroll. Startup isn't great either, though it isn't comically bad as it used to be.
So yeah, I want to see the authors of any desktop software to address this modern problem of writing slow UI. Otherwise I might assume they don't care.