I am now really curious as to the demographics of HN these days. It is clearly not the same place as yesteryear. I'll probably be down voted into oblivion as well but this is the truth. Stop being petty and worry about things that actually matter.
But yes, the thing that MAKES it amusing is that some non-trivial portion of the readership will debate it seriously.
Isn't the point of open source that someone can fork it, revert the icon, and call it "IconStudio Code" or something?
Why all the fuss?
You introduce another delay for security updates to get through (and this text editor has a browser under the hood, so very much needs security updates) and you get a not necessarily trustworthy and not necessarily dependable third party into the mix. They could ship malware in their build or abandon updating the software at any point.