I don't see what post was moved, this is exactly EEE, adopt an open strategy, extend it with proprietary extensions, don't let competition use those extensions, extinguish competition by not being able to interface with your proprietary extensions while having created an expectation from the user for them to be available.

More like you never know when they’ll initate the final part of their strategy.

Half the dev world is now used to VS code. Many junior developers have never used anything else. Whatever they do can have a big impact.