Bloat Comfort Zone

Bloat is sometimes used as a pejorative, so gets push-back from those who use products oft seen as bloated, and do not like that their IDE which pegs two CPU cores whilst in full idle is called bloated. Ascetic can also be used as a pejorative, mostly by those who cannot imagine why someone would ever even pick up ed, the standard editor. Much of this is relative, and the "Goldilocks zone" for one may differ significantly from another, sometimes the same person at different times. Compare a cruise ship to a kayak: both boat, though one comes with a few more features than the other. Some folks are as unlikely to be caught dead on a seamall as others anywhere near some flimsy hide contraption. And you have to paddle it yourself? Barbaric! Others may go in for both, or neither.

If you do not know your Bloat Comfort Zone (BCZ) you probably should determine that; try out ed, try out something with all the bells and whistles, and probably also the stuff in between. And maybe retry things over time—who knows, you might enjoy the CPU fan noise as the IDE does the whatever. Maybe if you're being paid by the hour so the IDE IDEing is money to your ears? One downside is that trying out software takes time, and the learning curve on some editors can be pretty long, and maybe you picked the wrong IDE at the wrong time, the one that was forever beachballing itself.

Having a default stance based on prior preference could save you time even if it risks missing out on something or the other. Big software? Nope, not gunna, would most likely hate it. Minimalism? Nope, not I!