I realise ronald and chris dislike dreamweaver, but like edge I use it in code view, and I actually like it, yes if you "let" DW do it all for you, it will be rubbish, but it can be more powerful than you may think. Much more so than notepad++, and I've been using sublime in conjunction over the past few years, and there's a fair bit that sublime can't do as good either.
I can't recall the last time it added useless unmanageable code to it for me to be honest, but you know that's just me - clearly.
Plus things like the apdivs and the text properties panel have been phased out now. and design view is being phased out (but I'm not meant to be telling you that)
the thing I find truly ironic about this continual discussion is no one seems to have an issue with the extra "fluff" that wordpress adds to a site. yet get all up in arms about non-existent code that is added. sure years ago it did. I'm very pedantic about my code, and I would not use a program that I felt would jeopardise that.
I can guarantee you I can design a site with dreamweaver, using a very streamlined workflow and set it live, with the addition of nada, zip, not one single extra character.
so like those in the SEO game sprouting untruths as gospel, unless you're using the latest version I'd hold my tongue. Sure MX whatever, thats 10 years old now guys...