I wouldn't call VSCode a copycat of atom. It was completely rethought editor built for extensibility and flexibility that brought the huge ass community together to contribute to it. The remote container support is a major innovation. No other IDE supports it so well even to this day.
Atom is a slow ass editor that was copied from Sublime Text but also failed to fix its own shit which was the reason it died.
I use and enjoy my microsoft stack (F#, Github, Azure, etc) but they definitely aren't "original".
It's like they built a nice large city where it's pleasant to live, but lacks the charm of a more intimate town.