I agree. They are not competition at all.

I used to work together with someone who didn‘t catch basic errors in VueJs and Symfony projects in VSCode because (idk) somehow it can‘t do it or some plugin is missing.

On the other side there‘s me with PHPStorm and WebStorm with full project inspection support and detailed analysis about code available at a glance.

Maybe I just don‘t know how to do that in VSCode but VSCode does not feel like an IDE but rather a Notepad++ on steroids to me. Sure, you can do the job in it but that‘s not the reason I pay a lot of money to JetBrains each year.

Edit: typo