They can give us dark mode and Intelllisense that actually functions more often than not but the path length thing persists.

I'm running into that right now. Pretty much having to do what your asshole programmer did and move it to another drive/partition. I do NOT want to restructure the entire tree because it's going to be for Mac and Linux too.

I'm also not going to resort to 8+3 naming convention nonsense to make them fit, either. I left that crap behind years ago and I am not going back.