The vim extensions are also regularly updated so things may have changed. To outright dismiss VS Code, free and open source, is amazing to me. Even a lot of noMS people use it including a lot of devs outside of the MS ecosystem (python is an example). Powershell is open source, C# is open source, on and on. All run on Linux and Macs.
If people don't want the suggestions, they will just have to muddle away. As a SAS consultant for decades, and the former MS consultant at SAS, I have faced a LOT of anti-MS sentiment. Even when proven wrong, again and again, they hate MS like it was the 1990s, not the modern MS.
Good luck with your vim problem. Nothing I can offer. I would probably have more sympathy for ISPF but each to their own.
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