As a Vim user of 2 decades, I have to confess something: VS Code is a far better programmer's editor than Vim. It's pretty responsive, has seamless (and better) integration with language servers [1] than Vim, has better autocomplete than Vim (due to said language server) and the Vim keybindings are not terrible.
For the first time, refactoring (renaming variables) is easy because the editor now understands the language-specific structure of the code as opposed to the code being treated as a long string. It's possible to attach a language server to Vim but it's fiddly and doesn't work that well.
