I know that obviously there's no obligation to share etc, but I can't help but feel like if they truly weren't up to anything sketchy they would be more forthcoming?
They stated in no uncertain terms they're running a remote VSCode instance and nothing else. I've done something similar back in the day just to have a consistent environment (target was a hacked up, cheap, used Android phone I left at home, but same idea -- remote IDE for one reason or another).
These posts aren't that crazy when you think about the level of abuse a service like this probably gets and how few dollars per account are spent from the bulk of users. I've been banned from Digital Ocean before without any crypto mining or heavy workloads or failing to pay bills or hosting porn or any of the other sorts of things you might expect. My best guess is that they flagged the fact I was using a privacy card as an indicator of potential eventual fraud. Or else a new fraud model took into account age and didn't take into account that there was no way for a new account to ever become old enough before being flagged, or some other sort of "data-driven" blunder. No biggie though, there are plenty of operators willing to actually accept my money for their services.
Anything bad has to be because the user, usually the person with the least power and information in the system, did something wrong.
The many other humans behind the technology -- the coders, architects, testers, managers, executives, lawyers, 3rd parties -- can never go wrong. They must have studied the entire set of probable situations and devised just and fair solutions to every situation. Therefore, they should not be held accountable though they typically have both more power and more information. They're incapable of making mistakes.
That’s how I read all of these when people don’t add more details.