Its also an easy way to access and fix your system if the windowing environment does not work (wich almost never happens unless Nvidia drivers, although that has improved a lot as well).

Or hardware issues (i still have night sweats over wifi on laptops even though that has been better for decades now).

Jetbrains IDE’s do love their fair share of memory. I can verify that.

I am starting to appreciate vscode more and more but it is a challenge to find the right plugins sometimes.