If you feel social pressure to be more "hardcore" about your software development tools then you are in bad company. There is nothing "elite" about anybody's tooling; only their results. Resist becoming a "mall ninja" developer.

Too many of these stories come off like influencer videos where they ask a humble practitioner about their gear and the answer is inevitably something like "This one, because it is what I have." and you realize the craft is about those who practice it not equipment.