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Installing atom or Vscode is ridiculously easy, what’s with this obsession that things need to be available out of the box? Perhaps it’s just my conditioning, but I automatically trust software that ships with a windows machine less than any binary I install myself.

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>Installing atom or Vscode is ridiculously easy, what’s with this obsession that things need to be available out of the box?

What if your enterprise customer staged a VM for you with no access to the internet and a highly restricted environment? You know what happens in that case? You're editing configuration files in notepad. You'll never run into it because you're just working on your home workstation but a good set of defaults will have an impact on these kinds of use-cases.

Seems like you're solving political problems with technical solutions. One could similarly argue a USB stick or shared drive with infinite vetted piece of software is superior to a single additional text editor pre-installed in the OS (which only solves a single, niche, use-case).

>> USB stick or shared drive

You have limited experience in a huge piece of the enterprise / government world if you think this would ever fly - and they all run windows

This may sound callous, but you're talking out of ignorance.

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