Because Raspbian is made for mainly educational purposes, and VS Code is the most user-friendly text editor, so they are shipping it. The lite image uses the sa

Because Raspbian is made for mainly educational purposes, and VS Code is the most user-friendly text editor, so they are shipping it. The lite image uses the same patches/base the full educational image uses, so the repo was also installed there. If you plan to run it as a server, you should probably pick another distro or live with that fact. The forum threads were closed because they were duplicates.