Re: It always makes me smile...
The OP was comparing Visual Studio with vi. As far as I am aware, vi is a text editor and is not part of an IDE. The OP does not like IDEs for some reason, and doesn't really think that programming in a GUI is very common. And no, I do not think MS invented stepping debuggers. I never said that. The words you quote are 100% factual:
"VS makes software development easier because it has the tools to let programmers debug their software effectively, step through line by line in the code."
...unless you're saying that VS makes software development less easy, or that it doesn't including debugging tools.
Perhaps you need to look at the title and content of the article to remind yourself that the subject being discussed is Visual Studio, which is why I did not list a plethora of other debugging tools. You mentioned several tools, none of which are of particular use to a Windows developer.