I think this is where discernment matters. I tried both plugins, but ended up never using them. They didn't pull their weight. The terminal will always be the "canonical" way to interact with everything - but for Docker I like Desktop. I've always had good luck with it. And for npm, I'd much rather run it in a terminal. But gradle or maven? Happy to run in IntelliJ. I haven't really investigated why one feels so different than the others. But yeah it's annoying when e.g. Docker uses the Run tab. That seems wrong.