You always have a choice to use/learn/make a different tool.

It’s a prison of your own making.

I’ve personally adopted a process where I structure my projects to ALWAYS keep credentials and sensitive information in a separate directory.

The working copy gets rsynced to and from a dedicated VM with whatever $HARNESS.

Many official, high-quality language support plugins are only available for VSCode. For some languages, you have a “choice” to use another IDE in the same sense that you have a choice to do programming with a hex editor. Lean being an example, where every alternative is in its infancy.