Yeah, I just looked at the link in a sibling comment, and yikes that is awful. To me, that goes totally counter to what I want syntax highlighting for...
Similarly I don't use the feature. There are features I feel incredibly strongly about so I do understand the sentiment a bit.
For me it's searchable local history and searchable recent locations- both jetbrains features that vscode falls flat on.
Native stack-based clipboard is up there, but there is a vscode plugin.
With those three features I can do what I think of as "fearless development" where I can just delete / change things without a second thought, easily able to undo/find old changes without needing to micro manage.