I've used Jetbrains IDE's for most of my career, and after that trying Xcode felt like going back to Medieval times.

I use a Mac and using anything Jetbrains is miserable. Nothing works the way it should and all the keyboard shortcuts are completely different.

You can't be serious, Xcode is the worse IDE I ever used, while Android Studio isn't great, it cannot be compared to that.

Xcode is so sluggish it's slower than an electron app despite being native, the xcode app upload is so broken even Apple released a third party tool to bypass their own IDE and its undocumented config files look like from the 90s and do not work well with git.

The UI is sort of okay but that's not going to cut it. You can feel the decades of cruft in this IDE, it feel like using Borland.

The UI is nice and I already know how to set up projects so it’s much better for me. The config files work perfectly fine with git, that’s where I put them.

  > Xcode is the worse IDE I ever used

let me introduce you to eclipse...

I used eclipse in the past and unless they became worse, the current xcode is still worse that ~2015 eclipse (last time I've used it)

Eclipse is also better than IntelliJ if we’re rounding out the unpopular IDE opinions

what makes intellij so bad? (personally i thought it was better than eclipse but idk)

I felt it was just very weird, kind of how I feel about Visual Studio Code versus other text editors. It was faster and probably had more features but I just felt like Eclipse was more pleasant in terms of UI (though understandably a little dated looking) and it was easier to customize it to something close to perfect for me.