I did try VS Code once, but the lack of autosave annoyed me enough that my trial lasted less than a day. This was admittedly before I knew there was a large ecosystem of extensions and I am sure there is some extension to deal with that problem, but needing to go scavenging for things like that would annoy me.
The 250 bucks is a great deal to not have to deal with things like that.
My favoured terminal editor though is Helix which isn't represented.