VSCode used to be good

Every company wants to be an AI company. Every text editor wants to be the AI-first text editor. VSCode used to be that "bloated electron app which could" - relatively quick startup and enough default config so to allow text editing. A rich extension ecosystem allowed to quickly turn into a minimal IDE, and profiles allowed to have multiple minimal IDEs per purpose / project. Even after MS bought VSCode it was still relatively "yours", as long as you disabled telemetry. Advertising own extensions and preferred solutions wasn't obtrusive and often they were useful.

Now, the Copilot is there by default and can't be removed. Every update is a major change to the Copilot. That Copilot is a terrible product - less than useful because it's difficult to undo changes and other useful coding assistants are being forced into terrible "Chat" panel. Yes, I have opinion on how things should work in my editor and VSCode is taking away that option from me. Guess Microsoft finally found a way to make VSCode into a product and moniteize it. Good luck, Microsoft, I will check out VSCode again in a few years.