No, I don't think this is a valid reason - in fact, I think it's a prejudice which disguises an ignorance of why languages with productive IDEs are so good.
An IDE with code completion means you can get more done without having to waste time studying API docs; in fact, the IDE's editor can itself become the most efficient doc lookup tool. This gives you more time and attention space to point at your problem domain, rather than mere incidental details.
Object orientation with static typing is a big contributor to this, because you start out with what you want to act on - the noun, which is usually a local variable or field - and get completion on the actions available on that noun. The contrast with functional and procedural styles is stark: there, you need to know the symbolic name of what you want to do to something you already have in hand, but editor completion is almost powerless to help you, because of the order of tokens in the syntax.
Statically typed "pure" functional languages have somewhat different tradeoffs when it comes to looking up functions; the style of code completion common in OO languages doesn't work, but because the type of a function encodes so much more meaning about what the function does, you are often able to find the function you are looking for just by giving its type to a tool like Haskell's Hoogle. This is less automatic, but it enables you to search a large array of libraries simultaneously, which is very helpful when you don't know what library contains the function in question!
An IDE with code completion means you can get more done without having to waste time studying API docs; in fact, the IDE's editor can itself become the most efficient doc lookup tool. This gives you more time and attention space to point at your problem domain, rather than mere incidental details.
Object orientation with static typing is a big contributor to this, because you start out with what you want to act on - the noun, which is usually a local variable or field - and get completion on the actions available on that noun. The contrast with functional and procedural styles is stark: there, you need to know the symbolic name of what you want to do to something you already have in hand, but editor completion is almost powerless to help you, because of the order of tokens in the syntax.