> What you don't seem to grasp is the difference between a project, and the eco-system that grows around it. SSH, WSL, Docker, third party language servers etc

> What you don't seem to grasp is the difference between a project, and the eco-system that grows around it. SSH, WSL, Docker, third party language servers etc are not a part of VS Code. In my mind, the remote capability is pretty critical. It's something a ton of people use and would consider it a core feature of VSCode. It being a 3rd party plugin is semantics. I know a number of people who use VSCode because of that feature alone. It's a defining feature of the editor's editing experience. Also there's some language servers too. Yes technically a plugin, but super critical to anyone who wants to use a language server's features.