[jasode]

>Why do professional software developers use Visual Studio in the first place?

- to build C++/C# executables that are deployed to Windows computers. Examples are the millions of corporate desktops that already use Microsoft Office suite and home pcs with Windows for running AAA games.

- to build ASP.NET web apps because the corporation chose the Microsoft stack of WindowsServer+SQLServer+C# instead of Linux+MySQL+PHP.

Why do companies continue to use Windows instead of Linux? Often because they have lots of other desktop software that only runs on Windows. E.g. CAD, analytics, etc.

If the target audience is already on Windows and the implementation language is C++/C# instead of Javascript/Electron, the easiest path for the developer is to also use Microsoft Visual Studio on Windows.