IntelliJ IDEA vs Ionic: Which is best for you?

The debugger is also very good, its interface tools make it easy to track variables and analyze stack traces, helping a lot in more complex projects .

the AI assistant is nice when it works, but it often doesnt, and your code snippets/project files are aggressively truncated behind the scenes making the tool much less useful for anything other than very narrow prompts lacking context

There are not many downsides but working with the shadow-DOM to customize components would probably be one. If you can avoid having too many customizations then this is the perfect product.

Also I've started using the new streamlined wizards to setup new projects and it seems the've solved a lot of the issues and complexity.