Agree with your post, but this gist still doesn´t make much sense to me:

> VSCode is build to sell Azure and other Microsoft services, which they won’t if you use VSCodium

If corporate has bought into MS, they will use Azure services anyway. So for MS it would not matter if vscodium also integrates well with Azure or has a good .net core debugger, their customers will still bring the whole IT budget to them.

Because you are spot on. Corporate buys the whole MS store, only walk the road that MS marketing has blessed and it happily walks into the Azure trap. They outsource IT strategy and planning to MS anyway, and MS names it "Azure".