Often VS Code literally takes longer to process a single key input than Vim takes to start, load all plugins and open a session with multiple files on my machin

Often VS Code literally takes longer to process a single key input than Vim takes to start, load all plugins and open a session with multiple files on my machine. Granted, it's not a high-end workstation, just a laptop from 2016. But I don't think it's slow; when Vim first released it could have beaten the fastest supercomputer. Now of course that's a matter of perspective, but I hope I'm not the only one who thinks editing a package.json shouldn't make any modern PC sweat.