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Obvious answer: it's the only IDE-like thing that's both well supported and caters to the huge population of JavaScript-only developers, who generally don't want to use IntelliJ or similar products because they can't customise it using only web-stack skills.

That is, if JetBrains had made JS plugins first class citizens of their products, possibly VS Code wouldn't be as popular as it is.

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I use vscode even though I don't particularly like it. Imo rubymine is a better editor but vscode does 90% of the job while not costing $300/year.

I'm curious where you live. Is $300/year a big expense for you? Computers and developer salaries are usually much higher.

Sublime was the leader before VSCode and it had python plugins. VSCode is popular because it works so well with TypeScript

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