Pointing the obvious here but, the article headline is why he stopped using it. He doesn't encourage anyone to follow his steps. I personally mainly use Jetbrains' ecosystem, but use VSC as fallback for stacks not yet supported by Jetbrains or if I want overview source code without actually run it nor test it. My experience is that VSC gives what it promises, a multiplatform and multipurpose code editor. If anyone wants and can afford a powerful and robust IDE go for Jetbrains products.