I think it depends on how new your students are to programming. If they are already coding and have their favorite IDE then it would be nice to force them to try something new to see a different workflow (even if they end up going back to vscode later).

On the other hand for newer programmers you want to focus less on the tools, installation and workflow and more on just getting them programming. In that situation the batteries included environments like RStudio would be preferred.

Another practical thing to think about is how much you and your TAs want to wrestle with installation issues vs just giving them a web based notebook environment like Colab.