This messed with me too. At work our primary development environment is a farm of older CentOS machines. They all lost support with this vscode upgrade. It probably impacts hundreds of people. I had to send out instructions to downgrade and pin your vscode version while we look for a workaround.

I get that it isn't entirely within the vscode team's control (Electron chose to make the switch), but even then, it really interferes with a lot of people's daily development needs. These systems aren't particularly old or out of support.