A major change that disrupts a well honed workflow should have a significant upside to be worth the investment. As far as I'm concerned, the working files list

A major change that disrupts a well honed workflow should have a significant upside to be worth the investment. As far as I'm concerned, the working files list does not provide enough of an upside to justify breaking my workflow, which sure is one big downside. The working files list is a perfectly reasonable solution to the problem for those who want it. I see no reason why it should be removed. That said, by not supporting an alternate tab-based workflow, VSCode is preventing a good chunk of devs from adopting it as their daily driver.