Wouldn't it easily be solved if people were actually using decent desktop environment or take the time to configure it correctly?
I mean it is not complicated to move from ide to terminal if the desktop and shortcuts are well made.
What were your blockers to moving to VSCode? My remaining issue is to be able to css style any element of the UI like I could with Atom. There're plugins that let you monkey patch to get that feature, but updates to VSCode break them.
It's a kitchen sink even before you install any plugins, and yet all the useful functionality requires plugins.
All I want is a text editor that can quickly switch to another file, that doesn't make it annoying when the file it had open was changed, that only adds the input that I type to a file and nothing else.
Also easy integration with commandline tools (select text, pass that as stdin to a command, replace it with stdout, all done trivially without going through a billion menus and plugins), vertical selection and multi-cursor that doesn't suck, maybe a few other details, are things where it failed to deliver.
I understand these are some folks trying to keep Atom alive.
I tried VSCode and went back to Atom -- it still works fine but expecting that won't last
Ideally I really need one where I can run bash sessions in tabs alongside code, I don't really use autocomplete and such -- but it needs to handle a lot of open large files with zero lag and instant search