Its hands down the smoothest, fastest and most reliable messenger out there. And I don't have to ever worry about losing messages between devices or taking backups.
Emacs Org Mode is not even a competition, not many people apart from developers using Linux use it and its not cloud based. Instead One Note is a great competition to Evernote.
He said that he doesn't want to reiterate what he already said on Twitter. That twitter thread is quite a few tweets long so I think it makes sense to just link to it.
People are following the "hype train" because VSCode is actually a much better and polished editor than Sublime text. Even people who absolutely detested Microsoft have grown a liking for VSCode.
Performance difference used to be palpable 1-2 years ago, not so much now. VSCode is on par with Sublime text in terms of speed(at least for me). I still have Sublime text open all the time for quick note taking, recursive searching etc. but for any coding work, VSCode seems way more polished and gives a better development experience.