I think DoomEmacs is worth a recommendation as an add on to what you’re saying. As it’s basically “slow” nvim with all batteries included + Org mode.

It’s was a very easy switch for me from VScode at least, and while I called it “slow” that is because nvim is ridiculously fast. DoomEmacs performance is still great, for the most part.

yeah I agree I think most devs that has used one of these distributions would be hard pressed to go back to vscode if they care about their IDE/text editor being open source - not to mention it can be a lot of fun extending them in ways that are personal to your workflow. Complaining about a massive corporate entity being self serving is kind of missing the hills for the trees.