Anecdotally, I think there's a difference from early/core Go adopters who tended to be more from a Unix background vs. the majority that "want to learn" go who'

Anecdotally, I think there's a difference from early/core Go adopters who tended to be more from a Unix background vs. the majority that "want to learn" go who're choosing VS Code not because of the Microsoft ecosystem but more so because of its lightweight but IDE like environment. In other words I doubt the fact that there's any correlation between text editor choice and the desire to learn go.