You probablly don't care too much about the IDE/editor choice but if the project will have any longivity you absoloutely should be caring about (this may mean you dictate or it may mean you just sanity check depending on the situation) the choice of language, compiler, libararies and other things that will impact the long term maintenance, portability and overall viability of the software.
"you" in this case being the lead developer. Anyone else who is doing this, is performing development work, and should be considered either a developer or an incompetent who is micromanaging something which is not his direct responsibility. For example, Debian's re-vote about init systems is definitely example of micromanagement, maybe not by a non-technical pointy-haired boss, but end result is the same.
"Ninety percent of baseball is half mental." -- Yogi Berra