Fun fact! You can use the word "just" in front of anything to make is sound trivial. Isn't planet Earth just one of eight planets in the Solar System? What's the big deal? Isn't Google just a website? Take out the word "just" and think on it a little. In this case, maybe there's something to that?

Its really easy to use, you download, login and start working.

Its a step up from copy-pasting from an llm.

But claude code is on another level.

It works well, and had first mover advantage. It also is a fork of VSCode, not just an extension/plugin.