My experience, admittedly is not one where I am a full time developer just a hobbyist and sort of dev adjacent for work, is that getting _any_ tooling setup in

My experience, admittedly is not one where I am a full time developer just a hobbyist and sort of dev adjacent for work, is that getting _any_ tooling setup in VSCode is a path with no end of problems. So, at least when someone says that type of thing here I go "ah, so the norm." I think saying things like that is more an indictment against VSCode. Don't get me wrong, I think getting vim/neovim setup to do the same types of things is possibly worse, but I haven't really had much of a better experience in VSCode either.