They are completely different products?

One is an IDE, the other is an editor. If you want an editor, of course you will not be happy if you use an IDE

The claim that VSCode was just an editor seemed flimsy the day it was released. Now, it is absurd.

DE perhaps, with some effort. Not very I

I remember the times when we were proud to print pgp code in a book to circumvent US export restrictions

Simply bowing to a request (has there even been one?) of an overreaching government is not in the hacker spirit