That's a plus in my books! I've tried all of the popular highly-rated IDEs and keep coming back to emacs. VS Code is the first Windows editor that I've used that I don't hate.

I actually feel quite conflicted. Right now, my favourite dev machine is my Surface 3 non-pro. I use VS Code for local development, and SSH to a tmuxed emacs session on the beefy Linux box at home. My whole life I've generally hated Windows, but since Git for Windows includes bash, it's actually not a bad environment. CMake can target the Visual Studio compiler too, so cross-platform work is pretty smooth too.

It is an IDE. It has debugging with breakpoints, autocompletion, and smart code navigation like navigate to source.