There is certainly a requirement that prevents payout on the contract for those supers if performance numbers aren’t met. Further, those performance numbers are from real apps, so the system WILL be useful. Not getting paid is not an option, so performance/usability will come.
Contents of the display are often added after the fact in marketing materials. The person adding the wallpaper probably just didn’t notice the photo was flipped.
I have been leery of VSCode for this reason. The bare product isn’t very special, so you have to download extensions to get the functionality you need. However, there is nothing keeping the extension from communicating. Suddenly, you get malicious extensions that leak data.
It’s not just malicious extension authors. Compromised developers of good extensions are just as much, if not bigger, of a risk.
I mostly use it for writing C, python, latex, and bash. I know I’m losing a bit of efficiency by not carrying a config, but I consider configless emacs a bit more capable for my workflows than configless vim.