> smells of preference Because it is. My preference, never claimed it wasn't one. But I don't know people that would recommend anything else. VS Code is faster

> smells of preference Because it is. My preference, never claimed it wasn't one. But I don't know people that would recommend anything else. VS Code is faster but poorer refactors/debug experience. It was just a subjective concensus. I haven't timed the IDEs nor do I intend to in near future. I think overall the helpfulness was better, and support for bleeding edge features like CodeGen, but I haven't used VS in like year or two.