The package manager is not the best, it may have improved since last I used it. Also .Net really needs Visual Studio (not VS Code) to unlock its full potential.
VS holds .NET back, IMO. VScode (proprietary version) is less powerful (especially on the refactoring side), but does have a bunch of nice features.
Rider is the perfect replacement, though. Comes with all the features of ReSharper (this is a big deal for many .NET workflows, VS may have integrated many of its features, but not all of them) and extensions and themes you can actually use (IME with VS of the 50% that promise to do what I want 90% are broken).
JetBrains just know what they’re doing. They’re clearly prioritizing quality (something the VS team seems to be actively working against).
Oh, and it’s damn near 100% compatible with VS projects (one thing I missed about 2 years ago were live updates of WPF XAML, everything else just worked).
I'm using Rider professionally and it's miles ahead of VS. Colleague of mine works on the same project using vscode without issues as well. You don't need Visual Studio for anything anymore...
