Probably at the edge of being a good example. I recently switched to zed because of how bloated VS Code is becoming. I think it gained it’s momentum by being small, but enshitification seems to come for all software.

Based on the hype I tried zed thinking it would feel amazing compared to vscode, and it just didn't.

What do you consider bloated on a VSCode install without any extensions?

I don't know your Standards, but VS Code feels very smooth.