Although I agree with the idea that VSCode is a Trojan horse, Atom had some severe fundamental issues (running everything in the UI thread) and would have come to an end no matter what.
After MS bought GitHub for sure.
How dare Microsoft make a superior product that aligns with their business
How dare MS to block VS Codium from the extension marketplace.
Is there anything stopping anyone from offering and maintaining an open-source store with open-source extensions for VS Codium?
The same that stops anyone building an alternative to the npm registry plus the extensions made by MS which won't be in that marketplace.
Like this
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31760684
Either you did not answer my specific question, or I don't get your point.