I think I figured this out:

• "By default" the IDE creates "bare metal" project, which has this features disabled. You can develop you project as bare-metal but you are on your own and need to configure everything in the code, which might be fine for many use cases
• In order to get access to some advanced MCU-specific tools, such as configuring via GUI you have to install MCU-specific SDK (which is called RTD in the most recent incarnation of it)
• I only could install it from file (perhaps there is a way to download it through IDE, but didn;t work for me). In my case the file was `SW32K1_S32M24x_RTD_4.4_3.0.0_QLP02_D2505_DesignStudio_updatesite.zip `
• You need either to specify the SDK during project selection or add it later