Unfortunately, most developers don't like them so it is a though sell.
You make it sound like you are surprised, but everyone who has tried this knows it's crap and a band aid at best.
I couldn't find anything about it that was even half as good as a real text editor.
It made writing code feel like a chore. I usually love writing code.
I use VSCode/Codium since I maintain a GUI stack for general usage. But I have all the terminal tools installed for my work there as well. I hate customizing things too, which I find is necessary if you want to get the most out of terminal text editors. VSCode is pretty good out of the box, with terminal access and everything built in.
Jeez, I hope this doesn't turn into a text editor flame war...
Edit: I realize in hindsight this comes across as overly negative. I think those are great solutions to have available for when you are working with a suboptimal local setup for whatever reason. I just don't think they're the default choice let alone any sort of ideal to strive for.
You could argue this is probably on GitHub for creating a token here that gives blanket access to all repos vs a scoped token for just the repo.
Why not set up proper containers (or VMs) locally? And why not wait a little till local LLMs catch up?
Maybe just a personal itch, but having your dev environment elsewhere feels so gross to me..
On the other hand ephemeral cloud environment with proper security controls makes a lot of sense if the goal is to isolate and control.
If everyone was following the protocol we wouldn't have had the problem to begin with.
I am against proprietary SAAS online in browser dependencies.