raw performance doesn't matter for a text editor nearly as much as it used to. unless you are using a toaster oven to code. then I guess raw performance would become important.

but hey, at least you can write code on a toaster oven, eh?

All joking aside -- I use VS Code on a 7 year old laptop, and it doesn't lag, or stutter at all. Performance is just fine. There comes a point where the hardware greatly outstrips the requirements to the point where it doesn't matter if the resources being used seem 'too much' for what it does.