lol ok but where does it stop?

I got into programming long before LSPs and MCPs.

The only craftsmen are the ones at the edge of the lingo tree?

To use your own analogy, as a machinist myself : I can master the concept of the lathe and bow drill without learning simulation-driven CAM, and I would be no less a machinist than the guy pressing buttons on a brand new Haas.

If you work via notepad.exe and assembly with a compiler and linker ready in the next window, fine! the work is what matters.

https://notepadexe.com/

Every day we stray further from God.

It stops at the tools you use, "it's a tool you use every single day". If it's not a tool you use every day, you don't need to learn it.

If you don't use language servers, you don't engage with development environments which rely on them, you need not learn them.

If you're making chips on a Monarch 60 you don't need to learn shit about CNC. If you're pushing buttons on a Haas you do.

If you're coming from a Monarch and want to try pushing buttons on the Haas on the kids are using, you need to learn how CNC works. That's your job. If you want to switch from notepad to Zed, you need to learn how language servers work.