I’m the same way, VS Code is very hard for me to use. I quite literally don’t get what’s going on. I don’t know which is faster benchmark-wise, but I work much more efficiently in Atom and Sublime than VSC.
I went from Vim to Sublime Text 3 to VS Code, in the end it's all about what helps you work faster/better. There isn't in my opinion a choice to make here, really depends on the task you want to achieve. VS Code works fine for my projects.
(I still use sublime to quickly edit text but I was really disappointed with their latest version)