It’s commonly promoted as „open source“ and this seems to be commonly believed. Pretty much everyone I tell that the official builds of VSCode are proprietary (and how proprietary they are) is pretty surprised.
the old ‘embrace-extend-extinguish’ model is what it _truly_ is, f.e. , you cannot take extensions from m$ store and use it.
there have been large number of discussions around this topic, and folks have highlighted these concerns more articulately than i could ever hope to do.
take your pick.
With this mindset, what could MS possibly create that wouldn't make you say this?
Microsoft does something shitty? See, they're a terrible company.
Microsoft does something awesome? Well, we're currently in the "embrace" or "extend", so they're a terrible company.
I'm as (or more) pessimistic than the next guy about the state of tech and capitalism, but at least give credit when and where credit's due.