> VS Code is an awful editor in general. I don't understand how it's so popular. Maybe it's just me but I don't like having 300ms lag between every action I perform on my editor.

I'm surprised to hear this take. I've been a Doom Emacs user for a while, and while it was a bit more elbow grease to get it running on OSX, it was generally worth it for the speed/flexibility...

until

I ran into a non-trivially large Terraform code base. Slowed.to.a.crawl.

On the other hand, even with multiple plugins, VSCode was(and continues to be) very snappy. Nearly instantaneous search and motion.