I would be harsher than the OP: This inconsistency is deliberate and a natural consequence of attention economy. Every PMs dream is for their app to become the

I would be harsher than the OP: This inconsistency is deliberate and a natural consequence of attention economy. Every PMs dream is for their app to become the new homepage/home screen. Want to switch out of Slack to send an email to your boss? It SHOULD feel painful, so that next time you do it on Slack. Want to set yourself a reminder? Well Slack can do that for you. No need to deal with the "foreign" Google Calendar UI. VSCode is also somewhat weird, in that it married an IDE with a Terminal, a File Manager, a VCS, and tiling window manager. One day there will be the "great merger", Slack + VSCode + GitHub + Spotify, the Dev Desktop.