SiriusLi

If you look up the review scores on Amazon, they mostly get 4+ stars. Other interest might be in play. This is a direct challenge to the textbook rent seeking behavior by some professors, e.g. write new edition each year to destroy the second hand market, use digital logins for exercise materials and so on.

I doubt this will be a step forward. RStudio performance was fine the way it was.

Sounds like a reason to buy your car in another country and import it.

Appears to me as a response to VS Code's remote capabilities.

Interesting! Reminds me of generating electricity with a lemon as a kid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_battery