For me its been the questionable stewardship of vscode (https://github.com/omnisharp/omnisharp-vscode/issues/5276) driving me away from vscode and the Emacs from Scratch videos from the System Crafters youtube channel driving me towards Emacs. When I was looking for alternatives I stumbled on those videos and they blew me away.
Also Emacs 28/29 has been way more welcoming and easy to get started with than when I first tried 8 or so years ago.
Also Emacs 28/29 has been way more welcoming and easy to get started with than when I first tried 8 or so years ago.