doubtful, seems to me that the whole point is to provide a light weight cross platform editor that supports asp.net core, typescript etc... in order to drive ad

doubtful, seems to me that the whole point is to provide a light weight cross platform editor that supports asp.net core, typescript etc... in order to drive adoption of those technologies. Merging it with VS would either require making VS cross platform (massive undertaking I would think) or a massive rewrite which would have dubious value to MS.