Excellent point with regard to dev tools not being a successful LT investment, with Oracle being an exception. I find Atalassia being sellers of dev "app", a standalone final product rather than a component in an overall solution that is effectively tax on every copy.
Productivity and true isolation, even somethingas as minor as window size/placement... wouldn't replace VS Code, Slack or Spotify clients, they simply do more.
Debt is a liability to be served, having returns and margins winning over growth, adding a not-so-silent participant to the mission. Welcome to the real world.