[Onavo]

> an underappreciated fact is that extensions just work, and are very easy to install and configure

This is partially because of cultural reasons. VS Code was originally a code editor made for web developers, by web developers. It follows directly in the footsteps of Atom. Web developers, for good or for bad, value the user experience of software working out of the box so they tend to bundle everything. Systems engineers, those of the C/Python camp tend to optimize for efficiency and prefers the user to manually setup out-of-band binaries.