I like VS, but I'd say VS has a lot of great stuff in it, but "VS as a whole", if you could somehow abstract away what it contains, is actually pretty shoddy. i

I like VS, but I'd say VS has a lot of great stuff in it, but "VS as a whole", if you could somehow abstract away what it contains, is actually pretty shoddy. i.e. VS is less than the sum of its parts, although the sum of its parts is great enough that VS is, despite that, still pretty good.