I don’t see why you would ever have to switch to a certain IDE, but I can see from some of the other comments a lot of people seem to be unfortunate enough not to have the choice. One of the reasons I like emacs (again in in doom so it could be Neovim) is that it’s basically an IDE I can use forever and easily get working on any computer by pulling my dot files from my git repo. I say easily but it’s obviously not easy on windows considering you sort of need WSL, C server and to install some LSP support.

I understand why people like VSC, but at the same time I’ve seen people go from other IDEs to VSC and now many are going yo Zed. Mean while I can just trundle along in the same IDE. Some of the emacs purists haven’t had to learn a new IDE for decades and likely never will.

To each their own of course.