You are definitely over-hyping VS Code, but it definitely has a killer feature: being the only modern IDE (Sublime Text aside) that doesn't slow to a crawl when opening any file larger than a few hundred lines of code.
Qt Creator is what advise to newcomers who aren't yet familiar with the terminal.
Unlike VSCode, its C/C++ debugger is first class, and it's a native binary developed in a high efficiency language.
