> The short summary is that MS uses multiple, constantly changing methods of DRM to make it impossible for people to patch out the "only official VSCode" check

> The short summary is that MS uses multiple, constantly changing methods of DRM to make it impossible for people to patch out the "only official VSCode" check from the Pylance extension. This is very clearly malicious. Huh? There's been lots of outrage about this. Repeatedly. However, the problem is that nobody with any resource is willing to step up and replace the Microsoft closed source plugins. And developers aren't willing to put themselves out to use non-encumbered extensions. It's basically a big "Put Up or Shut Up" from Microsoft, and nobody is willing to "put up" so we wind up with "shut up".