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The question is how many people would pay for alternatives instead of using VS Code.

I don't think usage alone does amount for anything. Other free offering will not go away and if something would happen, many (including me, a casual Code user) would simply switch back to what we used before, or a new thing.

MS will not manage to extuingish the "competition" because the competition doesn't even compete, they release their editors and IDEs and simply exist.

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That you so readily conflate the editor itself as a terminal end rather than a cleverly disguised means to an end hiding in plain sight is what makes Microsoft's strategy so scary; they're so effective at steering even knowledgable users into completely missing the forest for the trees as you've clearly demonstrated.

Please enlighten me. I'd accept "taking away people who would write extensions for FLOSS editors", I'd accept "taking people away who would buy an editor" but I really don't see how me using VS Code for a few hobby projects instead of vim (what I still do half of the time) changes anything.

Recommend revisiting Huntley's blog post for the insight that he so charitably and concisely conveys. As for derived enlightenment, the onus is entirely on you; I have no interest in bartering an appeal to conditional short-sightedness.

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