Yeah, "Visual Studio" is a big, slow, bloated mess, that when working on a typical project, especially web projects will just freeze out regularly and plugins will stop the world, doing who knows what.

VS Code actually loads faster, doesn't freeze as much, and in general runs faster than any IDE I've ever used. And I've used a few. There are faster code editors, but VS Code is a bit more than most of them, but less than a full IDE typically is.