Just to back this up, I've also bricked my VS installation multiple times when I worked in that environment. However, some of that was self inflicted when I was

Just to back this up, I've also bricked my VS installation multiple times when I worked in that environment. However, some of that was self inflicted when I was trying to figure out how to restore older sub versions of vs 2019 before they started publishing the manifests publicly. Also, while this isn't bricking the IDE, you can definitely ruin solutions & project files in a very hard to debug way if you ever need to manually update those files.