The common observation that experienced developers avoid (insert supposedly productivity-enhancing tool here) is usually dismissed as some form of machismo/old dog being unable to learn new tricks, but it ought to impress on somebody how universal this is... and ask, maybe, why it's so universal? I don't dislike visual basic, or GWT, or ruby on rails, or angular CLI because I'm an old codger who doesn't need them fancy new fangled young person fashionable toys, but because I tried them out and found that, although they do make a pretty GUI appear on the screen a lot quicker than I can with vi, they also fail in unexpected ways that are nearly impossible to diagnose. So now, rather than spending a lot of time coding and a little time debugging (and knowing exactly what I'm debugging and knowing that when I find what's wrong, I can change it), I spend a little time coding and a lot of time trying to guess what the hidden, internal model of the application is hung up on. All with a skeptical boss asking me why it isn't done yet. I always give the hip new thing a chance, and I always find that it trades off some up-front complexity with a lot of impenetrable mystery - along with the expectation that the "time saving" tool will actually save time rather than shuffle it from the beginning to the end.