I haven’t made the jump yet but I believe you. My autocomplete has been broken on Emacs for a year, and I rarely miss it. I never use code actions, nor goto definition. I do enjoy real time errors but they often pop up with such a lag I’ve ran the compiler and it has shown me the error itself. So I dream of just turning off LSP — it’s not like it makes me such a better programmer than 20 years ago.

Re: syntax highlighting, I don’t know how people can work with their harlequin-on-LSD themes that are a constant distraction with no semantic benefit. I have gravitated around mostly mono or duochromatic themes, while 99% are a vomit of colours. I still don’t get why variables or function names need a distinct colour.