[hollerith]

Clarification.

The way I prefer to relate to software is to be constantly running a prediction of what is going to happen on the screen in response to my inputs. If anything unpredictable or surprising happens while I'm using software that is usually predictable (and I'm not on a tight deadline) I usually stop what I'm doing and try to understand the source of the unpredictability enough that it won't surprise me the next time.

Although I do not have that kind of relationship with most of the web sites I visit, I do have that kind of relationship with Emacs (and have for 30 years).

Early last year vscode was my only text editor for a few months, and I don't recall getting significantly annoyed at vscode's unnecessarily invoking my "what just happened?" response, but I haven't used vscode in over a year and the OP makes me very-slightly less likely to use it in the future.