I think this probably depends at lot on language. I mostly code in Rust, and for a simple example of one of the "most basic refactoring steps", renaming a type/

I think this probably depends at lot on language. I mostly code in Rust, and for a simple example of one of the "most basic refactoring steps", renaming a type/function/variable/etc. and updating all the uses work quite well using rust-analyzer. I'm not doubting that Intellij might have a lot of nice refactoring features that VS Code doesn't, but I'm definitely able to do a lot more than just regex searches.