I think IDE preference leans further towards subjective than many believe.

I find that IntelliJ IDEs are fine, but not nearly as amazing as they're often hyped up to be, and similarly while Xcode has problems it's not nearly as bad as is often claimed.

My experience is somewhat colored by Android Studio and JVM ecosystem stuff like gradle and proguard though, which have been more cumulative pain for me than anything Apple-side in a long time (Cocoapods was pretty gnarly but SwiftPM has fixed that).

The linked article states that you'd use VSCode, so no touching Xcode.

Have you even opened the link? It uses VS Code.

Xcode, for all its faults, is largely pleasant to use. This is not true of Android Studio, which looks and works as a Java IDE (derogatory).