This is an insult to Satoshi who used Windows/Visual Studio in first versions and could be a reason why he left the project.
Ask yourself the following question if you are a Visual Studio developer or any other IDE developer ?!
Would you quite the project you are working on if IDE changed to something you have no experience with and ditch years of IDE experience ?
Just a few weeks ago I built the entire project in Visual Studio 2017 and ran it through the debugger. Using vcpkg (
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/vcpkg?view=vs-2017) helps a lot with the dependencies. I had never used it prior to attempting the build, so if I can do it then any competent programmer should be able to as well.