Every VSCode (Neo)Vim plugin I’ve tried (most, if not all of them) is a janky mess of random missing features and/or broken state handling. They’ve all felt like a worse experience than just doing things the ‘normal’ VSCode way.

You are trying very niche plugins then... my experience has been superb for almost 10 years now. Recently I started using LazyVim by folke which I think is a really polished experience as well. Worth trying out if you don't like the regular plugin workflow.

That name rings a bell, I recall trying it but I’ll give it another go next time I find myself opening vsc, cheers!. Most of the time I just use VSCode as a visual debugger but it’d be nice to make minor changes without making typos due to vim-brain muscle memory.

Edit: just looked up LazyVim and it seems to just be a prebuilt neovim config atop the VSCode-Neovim extension which was one of the aforementioned janky experiences (IIRC undo stack wasn’t shared with VSCode and would get out of sync). I think I tried it as a last ditch effort because someone else said that it’ll fix VSCode-Neovim plugin deficiencies but I ended up just going back to my simple but effective neovim config and using VSCode as a visual debugger. I’ll give it another go if you reckon it’s much better though.