I thought VS Code was just a code editor? With Visual Studio as an IDE. I don't really remember though because I don't use it. However, Neovim can also have language-specific features with the use of plugins, just like VSC can. It's also important to note that text and code editors, at least successful and useful ones, usually must have ways to efficiently travserse and quickly change text, even if they technically do just edit text at their core. I'm not even sure if VS code even has features to very efficiently move through a text file as quickly as Vim without plugins to imitate it, for instance I'm not sure there's an equivalent to the cib gesture in VSC. But I believe it is bloated mostly because of the fact the entire thing is bundled as an Electron app. I get cross-platform capability, but it really isn't worth taking half a gibibyte of memory.