I remember learning C and Python with just Notepad++ and a book. No helpers was needed (intellisense, lsp, linters,…) just edit and run. Then I start learning about those and using them, but they were just that, helpers and not crutches.

I believe the same happens with artists and writers. If you’re good at it, you don’t need a whole studio to draw or a special word processor to write. It will scale down the scope of your work or make it more difficult, but you’re not suddenly incapable of doing new work.

I can write a program with ed(1) or with intellij idea. The only thing that changes is the easiness. The act of programming is orthogonal to the tooling.