To add to that, my expectation of fonts is that the italic version follows the same style as the non-italic version (same goes for bold).

Having a typewriter-like font whose italics version looks like handwritten cursive breaks this expectation. If it was meant for code comments, the solution is to configure the IDE to use a different font and not to hack the format.

Victor Mono is two fonts in a trenchcoat for no good reason.