MikroElektronika's toolchain is known for being a closed source walled garden that lags well behind Microchip's current device support. That's fine if you go into it eyes wide open, but if, to get reasonable performance, you are going to have to use a 3rd party IDE or editor and integrate the compilers and programming tool yourself, you might as well do the same with the Microchip XC compilers, MPASM assembler if you need it, and Microchip IPE or IPECMD for programming, and at least get sourcecode for all the libraries, and support for recent devices.
Also the cost of entry is significantly lower as PICkit 3 clone programmer/debuggers are dirt cheap, the XC licences don't prohibit commercial use in Free mode, and you can rent Pro mode for a reasonable monthly fee.
OTOH Mikroelektronica's hardware is worth looking at if you are adverse to soldering, as they do build some nice development boards that are far more configurable than similar ones from Microchip, and many of their accessory 'Clik' boards are well thought out