The first word that came to mind was "integration", but I suppose "control" is another way of putting it. I doubt Microsoft would intentionally degrade develop

The first word that came to mind was "integration", but I suppose "control" is another way of putting it. I doubt Microsoft would intentionally degrade developer experience, like "cutting off third-party tools". Rather, they're seeking to gain market advantage from the tight integration of services. It would make sense for them to encourage third-party tools to play well in that "Microsoft ecosystem". > Pushing to GitHub and publishing to NPM from right within VS Code That's exactly what I picture coming soon, if not here already. Also: develop in VS Code, click to build, push to GitHub, deploy to Azure.