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You clearly haven't done much backend or middleware development.
It depends.
You don't want to write Java or kotlin in a text editor and gather the terminal commands for compiling and stuff when you could use an ide for that.
However there is not much difference writing C in an editor and compile it with make than using an ide. But in both cases I would prefer an ide.
The only reason why I would not use one is when there are incompatibilities or other special setups that make using an ide more work than an editor
"it depends" is something I can agree on.