Every once in awhile I want to reach for VS Code as more lightweight alternative to PyCharm, but PyCharm just blows it out of the water in almost every category except resource usage.
My understanding is that in VSCode if you disable Jedi then it will use the same engine that desktop VS uses.
The "refactoring library" was named rope, and I always figured that was the source of my issues.
This is the sort of info that is glaringly missing from articles like this one.
Extensible editora are nice and all, but they are only as useful as the plugins you install. Otherwise, text editors such as vim, vscode or sublime are just that: plain old text editors.