It's common to be pessimistic about block-based programming, usually due to the scaling difficulties.
https://kakaroto.homelinux.net/2017/11/introduction-to-reverse-engineering-and-assembly/ comments how valuable (and common!) block-based visualisation of logic is!
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ASTs typically discard comments, and that's usually what you want.
The only time (AFAICS) that preserving comments is useful is for writing a code formatter.
Could you write a formatter in terms of a list of lexemes? A CST is a non-trivial bit of code for one use case.
Sometimes programming tools are so good that you miss them when using other languages. I see these mentioned the most frequently:
* IntelliJ (for Java)
* Slime+Emacs (for Common Lisp)
* Pharo (for Smalltalk)
I'm struck that they all have bespoke UIs.
New version of difftastic is out!
* Fixed a nasty crash that was relatively common
* Minor display and performance fixes
https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/releases/tag/0.60.0