[xyzzy123]

Funnily enough a lot of this "extension sprawl" is caused by the _difficulty_ of installing tools on locked down Windows machines. I recently moved to a locked down SoE and instead of being able to use regular tools (which require a lengthy negotiation process to install) I now use extensions for absolutely everything, _because_ they're not currently policed in the same way...

[ihateolives]

At my last workplace I was not allowed to install JSON viewer/prettier extension for my browser, but I was allowed to install VScode with random JSON plugins.

[3form]

I see the same thing. Similar for PyPI and NPM registry actually.