To be fair, ripgrep is approximately one decade old, would be tricky to have used it for decades.

http://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12564442

However, it's coming up on a decade (8 years) of vscode using ripgrep behind the scenes.

Has there been a general gentle decline in IDEs over the past 15 years or is it just me?