I actually agree with that. I should have added a qualifier to my previous comment (grandparent), namely, I use Emacs mainly for things other than programming, and if I ever start programming full-time in a language other than Lisp, then, yeah, (for the reasons you give) I'd probably use vscode instead of Emacs to do that.

I use Emacs for managing files (with Dired) running shell commands, bookkeeping, keeping notes and chatting with LLM services.