I switched because my workplace has licenses for VSPro, and IT doesn't want us grabbing our own stuff off the internet.
What a disappointment! it's worse, and harder to use in almost every way. For the record I'm coding in Python and just need git integration and a debugger.
It's such a step back in design language and usability. Love to ignore free software in favor of its expensive "professional" counterpart 
Still salty they killed the only decent Electron-based editor just to slap the M$ name on it and inject a ton of non-free telemetry.
Hey now, don't revise history you're not doing their pre-acquisition plagarism justice.