[oblio]

The upside for anything like this is that the barrier to entry being higher, the people who do this tend to create higher quality things overall and maybe even share them.

It's not my idea, it's the premise from

http://winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html

[anamoulous]

Have you looked at the VS Code marketplace? It is not great. The LSP modes are great and then here and there you get interesting extensions, but a bunch of it I would not call higher quality by any means.

(I use vscode all day for my work projects and generally enjoy it and am not trying to drag it, just trying to be honest about this aspect of it.)

[oblio]

I have, and I'd fault the immaturity of the ecosystem more than anything. VS Code was launched just 3 years ago. I don't even know if it had extensions from the beginning.

The extensions I've generally used were quite solid, haven't had many problems with them.