Can't agree more. The frontrunner used to be Eclipse for sure, but that had turned into big pile of heaving bloatware when I last used it (probably about 5 years ago at least). I did go through a phase of using IntelliJ Idea for my Java dev work and liked that a lot but as the useful stuff isn't free and since I started doing more dev work in MERN and MEVN, VSC is definitely the devenv of choice for me now.