> The customers clearly don't want this bloat,
citation needed. the customers clearly want it, for example most programmers chose VS Code over a native app
I did not chose VSCode, I only touch it, because there are SDKs whose programmers decided only to support VSCode as Electron fans.
Thus I begrudgingly use VSCode when forced to do so, otherwise I use the IDEs of each OS vendor.
If there was a vs code native alternative that was parity, that might not be a case. That's apples and oranges