To be honest, I've had very similar results with TypeScript using neovim, helix and emacs. The tooling somehow never works correctly, or needs a lot of tinkerin

To be honest, I've had very similar results with TypeScript using neovim, helix and emacs. The tooling somehow never works correctly, or needs a lot of tinkering until the experience is decent. As a comparison, I write Rust as my main language, and the tooling always _just works_. The experience with Zed is very good. Maybe the time for Zed in TypeScript development is not yet there, but if you write any Rust code, it's worth a try.