If there was a vs code native alternative that was parity, that might not be a case. That's apples and oranges

Sublime Text? Sure, doesn't have the long tail of extensions, but surely most people don't need those. The biggest issue with ST being the fact that it costs money...

> The biggest issue with ST

The biggest issue is that it’s not open source.

And we don't want to pay for tools, while expecting to be paid ourselves, rigth?

Zed?

I did not chose VSCode, I only touch it, because there are SDKs whose programmers decided only to support VSCode as Electron fans.

Thus I begrudgingly use VSCode when forced to do so, otherwise I use the IDEs of each OS vendor.