The implication of “sucking your resources dry with a massive memory footprint” in the comment your replying to, is that in order to make VS Code fast, it slows

The implication of “sucking your resources dry with a massive memory footprint” in the comment your replying to, is that in order to make VS Code fast, it slows down your system in other ways. I don’t know how valid that is, but it’s certainly not “caring why”, it's about the other performance consequences that aren’t VS Code itself running slowly.