I personally use VSCode as a text editor in the sense that you describe. I edit my notes in VSCode with Foam, a similar tool to Roam Research. Similarly my blog

I personally use VSCode as a text editor in the sense that you describe. I edit my notes in VSCode with Foam, a similar tool to Roam Research. Similarly my blog is based on Jekyll and Markdown files so I use VSCode to edit those markdown files when writing posts. There are definitely cases where I use VSCode as an IDE for other projects but it works well as a simple text editor too IMO.