Do you mean because it selects the rectangle? Just hit an arrow key.
I also found the 'extra' cursors too faint previously. Hopefully that's been improved too.
I'll give it a go as there's so much to like about it.
I wouldn't call that a problem per-se. It draws a cursor where there it text to draw one. This makes sense to me as I can edit a column of values and not pick up already empty columns.
To do what you want I'd just multi-cursor the start of all the lines and hit end. Usually ctrl+arrow over word boundaries gets anywhere I need after that.
Anything fancier still I've just written a regex instead.
Could certainly be a preference option to enable blank lines on multiple cursors. it would have to fill the white space.
Can you please open a new issue and describe "as you would to a five year old" what's not working as expected.
Even from reading this comment thread I simply don't get it, so it might be something very easy to fix, once I do understand what it's about.
Thank you for your patience! :)
I fully understand that if you come from a world of 2D blocks (or regions) where you can select rectangles then VS Code's way of doing things makes sense but I am so used to having multiple identical cursors and being able to swipe vertical lines through tables of text or more often down the ragged right hand side that I find VS Code frustrating for hard-core text editing.
I seem to start every new project using it and I love its language-specific coding tools (and how it handles extensions) but as soon as I need to do a large edit on a nasty piece of text I find myself switching back to Sublime.
(I will of course give it another go as soon as I start another new project)