I agree with most of what you are saying, but never, ever is a long time. If I can be optimistic for a moment, I think 100 years or more from now, successive languages and IDEs won't simply be patches to awkwardness, they will probably help with many real programming problems significantly. Ask yourself how many times have you re-invented something over and over again, or the fragmentation of documentation and usage overhead of frameworks. These are just some. Computer science and software engineering are young disciplines.

Comparing different IDEs is often a matter of style and personal choice right now, but if there is ever a big milestone, many will know it and many will adopt it, but until that point I don't think being complacent is the answer. Who knows what black swans lie in the future.