To remove it, you have to be aware that it exists first, which is certainly not the case of a large majority of tech-savy people who do not necessarily read all

To remove it, you have to be aware that it exists first, which is certainly not the case of a large majority of tech-savy people who do not necessarily read all the news regarding their system. I certainly wouldn’t expect my distro to silently add a repo to my already installed system. My point was that they could have added VSCode to their own repositories with minimal maintenance effort, which still provided the software without the need of another repo.