I've found VSCode _ok_ to work with across across different workspaces/projects. The window memory is hit and miss. There's a secondary side bar I've been trying to NOT have open on startup but always seem to stick around. I'd prefer to programmatically manage the windows so I can tinker with an automated setup but the VSCode API/Plugins for managing this are terrible and tend to fail silently.

CLI within VSCode is workable but most of my VSCode envs are within a docker container. This is a pattern that I'm moving more and more away from as agents within a container kind of suck.