The only really annoying push I see in Visual Studio is the Applications Insights stuff. Default on for a new project. And if it's not on, it scans your dependencies then pops up an ad. I just got such an ad because I had NLog on a project - it specifically mentioned using NLog + Application Insights. But VS+VsVim is so far ahead of the competition that what choice do I have?

Application Insights, Entity Framework, OWIN and two dozen other things are included in a "standard" website template.

Now, I love templates - and I wish that they were easier to use so we'd see more variety - but putting everything and the kitchen sink into the default templates is getting annoying.