There are much better IDEs. Check out the Jetbrains products. If you want an editor on Mac there is also Nova:

https://nova.app

The Rust and web related extensions work pretty well. I've been using that for a while.

There are a few more around.

I use IntelliJ for $dayjob, and while I love it, it too submits telemetry. I do not know how pervasive it is, but the controls for it are not obvious in the general config window.

The only way to really escape telemetry today is a local firewall that can block network access by application.

I would like to see some analysis of the telemetry Jetbrains sends and whether you can turn it off. It's a paid pro IDE so it wouldn't surprise me if you can really disable it because some commercial customers will not want telemetry. In high security environments it's often considered bad due to the possibility of accidentally exposing secret information.

Yeah, I almost mentioned IntelliJ, as an IDE it's almost unmatched.

Emacs or *vim

And even if you don't like fiddling with dotfiles you can install some really nice distribution like spacemacs or doom for emacs and lunar for neovim. They have a pleasant dev experience out of the box.

On windows notepad++ was my goto for basic text editing. These days I use the jetbrains editor of choice for the language in question or IntelliJ for basic text.