Yes, that is always the risk with nuturing an OSS community to provide the less-than-core functionality. OTOH: 1. it encourages the main company to simplify a

Yes, that is always the risk with nuturing an OSS community to provide the less-than-core functionality. OTOH: 1. it encourages the main company to simplify and/or extend the plugin API to make writing plugins v simple, or even possible in the first place. 2. it gives a smoother path for the inclusion of new trending technologies into the IDE. 3. it encourages devs to offer improvements to features that aren't high priority for the large IDE company. For the latter, I'm thinking of Lombok support which, via a plugin, is much better in VSCode than it is in either Intellij or Eclipse.