> Ok, this post is mostly about text-based IDEs, but I think the point mostly stands as well for IDEs in general. I'm thinking about Visual Basic or Delphi.

Exactly. I recently recorded a video of me creating a toy app with VB3 on Windows 3.11 and the corresponding tweet went “viral” for similar reasons as this article.

It’s not really about the TUI: it’s about the integrated experience as you say!