Sure, that's a valid choice.
But when you're implementing a language ecosystem, proud ignorance of other peoples' usage patterns is just embarassing.
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Does proud ignorance of IDEs indicate that RMS may be impolitic or undiplomatic? Yes. Does it indicate he "is disconnected with the present technology?" In the world of C/C++, I don't think being willfully ignorant of IDEs and automated refactoring means you are out of date in your technical knowledge, as the grandparent post implied.
I do. There's a reason that CLion is becoming a thing (can't happen fast enough) and Visual Assist has been a de facto standard in C++ development on Windows for years. The tools exist, they just don't exist in Emacs.
Is RMS still involved with gcc at all? (Non-philosophically?)
He claims not doing any development himself for several years now, so I guess this means no.