Maybe the fact that they don't install such extensions indicates that they don't actually need them? I switched from IntelliJ to VSCode precisely because it was too slow and cluttered due to the sheer amount of extra features it provided, most of which I never used.
Even if all those extra features are useful, I'm still willing to compromise the core experience of editing and navigating code, as that's always what I'm going to be spending the majority of my time doing. I need that to be fast, easy and reliable, which is not what I have found to be the cast in IDEs, vs editors.
Even if all those extra features are useful, I'm still willing to compromise the core experience of editing and navigating code, as that's always what I'm going to be spending the majority of my time doing. I need that to be fast, easy and reliable, which is not what I have found to be the cast in IDEs, vs editors.