I've been using the same IDE for the last 10 years because that is what my colleagues use. Over the last decade the UI has changed significantly. Not only that, the keyboard shortcuts also change, and often don't work the same across different IDEs in the suite. For example, the shortcut to vertically select a column of text has changed at least twice. I like Jetbrains, but considering switching to something simpler that changes less often. Might miss out on some advanced features, but I don't use those often, and maybe I don't need it anyway
vi/vim/neovim has a very consistent interface. It does have a learning curve but it is very pleasant to use once you've learned it. A bonus is that you can now edit text on pretty much any machine without installing anything, desktop or server.
I moved from the Jetbrains stack to vim ~3 years ago and haven't looked back. Mastering vim of course takes some time, but getting up and running and being productive does not take too long at all.
It did help that I was mainly writing Go at the time which has the great vim-go plugin. Not sure how I would have done if I was writing mainly writing another language (C#, Java etc come to mind as perhaps benefiting more from a full-fledged IDE).
I just use the vim plugin in Jetbrains products. I get vim navigation, editing modes, basic macros. Vim emulation is not thorough, so I can’t get more complex features, but they seem unnecessary when I get Jetbrains features.
That's outside of my bag o' tricks. There was definitely some pain getting things to work to satisfaction in the Jetbrains tools. In a few cases I simply had to adopt a different workflow. But I'm feeling pretty happy about it now.
