But those are features of vim. The default settings of vim are nonexistent. I needed to spend hours just to get it to sort of work. It was not even showing line numbers let alone syntax highlighting.
I needed to spend hours just to get it to sort of work.
Some people consider this a bug, others consider it a feature.
I use both VS Code and (Neo)Vim on a regular basis. A huge advantage of VS Code is that for many languages, it works pretty darn well out of the box. I do a lot of ECMAScript development, and I have exactly two extensions installed for VS Code: ESlint and GitLens (plus some themes, but I don't consider those functional). My init.vim file is nearly 400 lines long, and that includes everything to provide a reasonable IDE-like experience (fuzzy finder, Ctrl-P, NerdTree, Airline, Git, various mappings, etc). Granted, I did not type all 400 lines (that is, they are copied from other user's configuration files), but I still stitched a lot together. And that's fine, for me. I get that some people don't want to spend their time tweaking their tools to that degree. VS Code is still a convivial tool[0], in my opinion. It simply starts from a different place.
