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No. This is hyperbole. There can be a formal difference, e.g. in terms of transparency about the rules that are upholded and the instances where they have been applied.

> there is no way, at least not that I've found, to export your entire configuration, both settings and plugins, and use that to bootstrap a new VSCode installation

You can define workspace plugins in `.vscode/settings.json` and make extensions recommended for a project by putting them in `.vscode/extensions.json`. Hope this helps!