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Having worked with VS for many years, things not so glorious in my opinion. The main criticism is an increasing lack of stability and error prone refactoring. I've basically given up on automatic renaming with VS2015. The IDE crashes more often as it should, especially during debugging.
Furthermore the solution/project-file concept (instead of using just folders to organize projects) is ancient and a real PITA when working in a team repository. I understand that this will hopefully be better in the future with .NET Core.
Another thing are licensing issues, which is really a uprising problem at MS (this is also the case for other MS products). You're not allowed to open your IDE when the license - falsely - expired.
I really enjoy working in VS code nowadays, which seems to be the more future oriented product.
Don't get me wrong, VS is still a solid IDE, but not as stellar as often claimed in my opinion. As others already said, competition is a good thing.