It also has some unfortunate OS / glibc minimums which means that it's growing less useful as time goes on. I work on a lot of machines that are from centos 7 era (including amazon linux 2, which doesn't have an upgrade path: you just have to build a whole new instance and migrate). I have had to pin my vscode + extensions to old versions because it works on older machines. They just stopped supporting platforms (with lots of notice; to be fair). I would love if they had a binary tool that could be built which was much more agnostic to the vscode / extension version so that I could just keep using it everywhere I've been using it, while allowing me to keep current with the latest and greatest.

At least when Python minimum version changed there was a separate extension forked from the original that I can use when I need to work on old code alongside the new extension for more modern code bases. Sadly, no such thing exists for remote editing that I know of.