Big fan of Gemini 2.5 + Cursor but its far from a panacea.
After using Cursor heavily the past few weeks I agree with the authors points. The ability to work outside of Cursor/AI is paramount within small software teams because you will periodically run into things it can't do - or worse it will lead you in a direction that wastes a lot of developer time.
Cursor will get better at this over time, and the underlying model, but the executive vision of this is absolutely broken and at this point I can only laugh at the problems this generation of startups will inevitably go through when they realize their teams no longer have the expertise to solve things in more traditional manners.
Roo Code with Gemini 2.5 Pro has been really great and FREE. I'm super curious to see how this landscape changes. I'm still surprised Windsurf managed to be acquired for $3B too. Give it a few years and there won't be a point in paying for these editors. I don't think there is currently.
