That may be true- but, that doesn't help navigate the evil known as corporate billing and bureaucracy.

Trust me, some companies can be an absolute pain in the ass when it comes to getting funding... for even cheap stuff.

Before the software can even be acquired, the legal team has to review contracts. Then, payroll/billing/accounts receivable has to setup their junk. Vendors have to sign invoices.

As much as I wish it was as easy as just creating an account, and entering my paypal- it doesn't work that way in many large companies.

Almost every Microsoft product is horrible. Our company has switched from our internal backoffice for attendance and project time allocation tracking, which was kind of terrible but aside from some slight issues (the only one I can think of being that if you wanted to create a time report for a project you're not on, enabling "all projects" pretty much froze the page for a few seconds, since it was loading hundreds of projects into a single selection box), to O365 Dynamics.

And oh my god it's the worst UX I've EVER seen. Every click takes around 4-5 seconds before the page even loads. You can't simply take project report from a single day, and copy it to the whole week. No, the only thing you can do is duplicate a single record, but you still have to manually change the date in like two fields - wich takes like 15 seconds since everything including a Data Picker takes ages.

It's not intuitive in the slightest. You can't just search for a project somehow easily, you have to open like a million of submenus to find what you need, and if something is missing you have to create a bazillion of different stuff for it before you can even track the time. It takes me literally around an hour to properly log what I was doing during the last month, and I only work part-time, so I only need to report like 10 days.

When we were switching the company was making a pitch about how it gives them more precise data about projects, but everyone I've talk to about it just stopped bothering with precisely recording every hour to a project it belongs, and just groups it up somewhat approximately. I can't imagine having to properly log the 3-5 different projects I work on or am on a meeting for during a single day, just thinking about it makes me want to quit, so I just choose the project I was allocated to for the week and report whole 8 hours to that. Or just group a few hours of overtime into a single random day on a single project.

And it's the same with Microsoft Azure. I've worked with both GCloud and AWS, and nothing was as slow and annoying to use as Azure - but mind you, that was several years ago, it may be better now. But I guess that's the price you pay for having such a large amount of developers. I've heard that they have whole teams for a small subset of features on every products - such as a team responsible only for one screen. That has to be such a mess.

I like DataGrip more than SSMS for just writing and running SQL. Not for managing databases. It doesn't have as much functionality in that area.

Visual Studio isn't slow. It hasn't been for a while. Visual Studio with Resharper is slow. I don't think "lacking features" is a serious complaint, it has quite a lot.