I agree about all of these things. But there's one thing vscode has and emacs doesn't that has recently (as of a job change) caused me to switch, because it ended up trumping everything else:

  * works decently well on Windows

Emacs is just so so so painfully slow on Windows. And running the Linux version in WSL leaves me stuck in 16-color terminal mode because (at least as of Windows 10) getting an X server working on Windows without creating a security problem for yourself is, to put it mildly, easier said than done.

Sorry about being stuck on Windows 10, but Windows 11 has WSLg[0], which gives you a reasonable X server out of the box. I liked X410, but WSLg is seamless. When combined with no fuss CUDA support and great docker integration, WSL2 on Windows 11 is almost a better Linux than Linux. Then you run into an edge case, spend hours digging at it, and leave curled up into a fetal position.

[0]: https://github.com/microsoft/wslg