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I understand and agree with you.
Various companies go out of their way to make plugin-ins for the platform that everyone uses and everyone uses the platform because of the additional support that it receives on account of being the most popular.
Microsoft is the one that ultimately benefits by being able to make anti-consumer decisions because each individual decision by Microsoft isn't as bad as the friction required to switch and learn to a new IDE. Microsoft can move the product in any direction that they want as long as they do it in steps tiny enough to not scare people away from their platform.
In the end we're the frogs that they're boiling, eventually you gotta jump out of the pot.