Frankly speaking the vim/emacs lines are yet to catch up with this sort of thinking. vscode feels like you are editing on the local machine. The experience is seamless and feels magical.
Emacs+Tramp definitely does not feel like you're editing locally. A surprising amount of things work, but many others will fail in annoying ways or are just clearly not supported.
Every other feature seems to be an after thought therefore is not subject to the same experience the modern editors have. They also have a huge learning and set up time, and can send you down configuration hell for lots of things.
Emacs can certainly be a little clunky at times though which can put a lot of people off. It does take some configuration and tuning for your personal preferences to feel good, but the upside is that it can do way more than the alternatives can do if someone/yourself puts in the effort to implement it. Magit is a great example of such a thing, the interface and functionality is extremely nice, even compared to something like Intelli-j's git GUI which is a pretty impressive feat!
With that being said it's not for everyone (and that's okay)!
> vscode is very good at this
I'm sorry, but what? VSCode over ssh? Huh?