I'm still in the honeymoon phase with this language and learning, but I agree it's a trade off.

For example your LSP isn't going to help you as much while you edit code.

However being able to express arbitrary compile time constraints and pre-compute stuff without having to go through a code generation tool is really powerful. You can actually use all the knowledge you have ahead of time as long as you can express it in Zig.

So far it seems like Zig is carving out a very strong niche for itself.