I definitely would not call VS Code good software, at least not overall. It's good in that it's not buggy, but it uses an absurdly high amount of system resources without any actual benefit. It is not ok that just to open a handful of small text files, it uses 1-2 GB of memory.
Memory used is not the only metric by which to evaluate software.
My machine has enough ram that this doesn't matter to me, and Vs code allows to be very productive compared eg to vim.