If you actually want to take full advantage of the editor and its plugins, then the answer is yes. It's easier to immediately get to grips with vscode than vim, but once you've understood the basics for vim (which takes maybe a full day of studying, and then some practice over a few months), the two editors are pretty equivalent in how much time you have to spend on super-powering them.
I think that's relevant because once you've seen how vim (or emacs) can be customised, it's kinda hard to accept vscode as is, without spending significant time customising it. To me, that makes your argument that it's easy to move to the next big thing, mostly invalid... it would be easy if I don't care about learning and customising the tool.
Of course mileage may vary depending on how picky you are with your setup. I'll admit I lie on the picky end of the spectrum.