It doesn't explain why every new editor without telemetry data prioritize a minimap tho, surely it can't be that popular since there are plenty of established U

It doesn't explain why every new editor without telemetry data prioritize a minimap tho, surely it can't be that popular since there are plenty of established UI patterns more suited to the individual use cases you've described. I mean, I can see why it got popular when Sublime introduced it. It was a time when most webdevs were editing in massive HTML templates, SASS/CSS and ES5, where the traditional outline view would return too much noise or missing important targets. But we've quickly moved past that era, it doesn't seem to make sense anymore for new players to prioritize it now.