Vscode is designed to fracture https://ghuntley.com/fracture/
Summary: Microsoft releases Visual Studio Code with telemetry built in, so other projects (e.g. VSCodium) have spun up to release custom builds without telemetry. But these projects can't use the same marketplace because they are not licensed by Microsoft, hence the "fracture" in the title of this article. It goes on to say that other proprietary IDEs are also problematic, and GitHub is a trap to capture and fracture developers.
This drama with Microsoft and open source reminds me of the Halloween documents:
Um... OK?
I mean... Use it or don't. I'm not sure, "it's just too good not to use" is a legitimate complaint.
Android is designed to fracture, Linux is designed to fracture, Clang is designed to fracture, Windows is designed to fracture.
Take GCC for example. It was philosophically designed to _not_ fracture due to how its plugin system was designed. As far as I know, there is no such limitations on emacs plugins. Plugins and their interface are what enables fracturing as this article defines it.