I use neither Windows nor VS Code if I can avoid it -- I prefer slower progress than getting orders of magnitude more features ahead of time, for giving up control I consider fundamental, because I feel that I'm well served by the tools that are available in the open source space. I don't achieve theoretical maximum productivity without tools like VSCode and all the things they might provide and it hasn't been a problem in my career yet.

It's totally fine for other people to be fine with the trade off, but for me VSCode is an incremental gain, not a huge absolute one -- maybe it will have some killer feature (or more likely some partner/employer will force it on me because it's the current zeitgeist and because of some custom plugin) that I'll need someday, but that day is not today.