> At the end of the day, you have to ask yourself about what your hourly rate is. If you are going to spend a 20 hour premium per week bandaging up a "free" .NET toolchain, whereas the official, $100/m stack costs you 1-2 hours, which one actually costs you more?

Also the official stack is supposedly supported, which means you can contact Microsoft if you have an issue.

In practice, you get some underpaid outsourced employee in the chat, who is just going to follow their script - so it is more effective to go to Visual Studio feedback or Github, depending on the issue.