The tips aren’t really a solution to this, because they don’t give you a general introduction and big-picture explanations about the system as a whole, and about the individual features in context. They are useful to inform you about the presence of a new feature when you’re already familiar with the software overall. Even then, they don’t go into any depth about the various aspects of the feature and how it interacts with other features and in different configurations, etc. In a good manual, you would get a whole short (or long) chapter about the feature.

> the little tips that pop up every now with "Hey did you know you can do this?"

I don't think those have ever come up at the right time, usually only when I'm halwfway in the middle of an action, and not in the headspace for a tutorial or tip.

And that tiny little tooltip, that offers no screenshot or example gif isn't going to get me to learn.

Sounds like clippy. No thanks. Maybe something that was available when you wanted it, but that's not it..

does vscode not have something akin to the apropos command from emacs? that tends to help quite a bit