"Turbo<foo> had a great IDE" in no way refutes that Ada suffered from not having an IDE.

Except it did, that is how Rational Software was born.

https://datamuseum.dk/wiki/Rational/R1000s400

Eventually that experience was moved into UNIX workstations, like everyone else trying to capitalise on their market.

The "I don't need IDE" culture is more related to languages born in UNIX culture.