I wasn't clueless when I built a tiny functionality into Code-OSS and I'm fine with Microsoft (or M$?) slapping telemetry on VSCode. You know, the crash reporter and usage statistics are the foundation of this incredible product/software. People use that software for free and they can disable telemetry at any time.

I'd rather work a week on VSCode for free than spending a day looking at Jetbrains' Java font rendering or waiting for Visual Studio to start.