Ok, so you are doing it “manually” now, correct?
There is no difference in Ionic support for different versions - the problem is that some of the IDE tools obviously don’t support the current version of Ionic CLI - which is different software… so it is a bit more complicated - as always.
Only if someone decides to start one, I think.
But I started a thread to collect IDEs supporting Ionic (and Ionic CLI) in whatever version, so there is a first rough overview: IDEs integrating Ionic?