I think this post has had interesting response, with some very positive and some like this, so the point of the post was to point out that you don't need fancy 3rd party apps all the time to get a great experience. If your looking for 3rd party apps though this post might be more what your looking for https://javascript.plainenglish.io/5-mac-applications-you-need-as-a-software-engineer-3558b3087b39