What are the ways that VScode is better than Emacs?

vscode does three things extremely well: defaults, defaults and defaults. The most important ‘you just need M-x do-whatever after installing the whatever-doer package’ is supported out of the box (no details on purpose, try running emacs or vim without any config and compare to a clean fresh install of vscode).

I listed my favorites above.

Generalizing it: Having smart people who really understand UX helps a lot with minimizing those months of pain before the payoff.