Most of the features you have grown to love in Visual Studio are available and can be exercised by just issuing terminal commands and over time this starts to become second nature and you’ll find your development velocity will actually become a lot quicker once you overcome the initially steep learning curve. However, don’t despair once you get familiar with it, you’ll find that working in VS code actually does become a lot easier and once you lose your mouse dependency and become more familar with the Terminal Window and the host fo commands available.
Transitioning to VS Code may seem difficult at first, due in part that most of this UI sugar has been stripped out and most steps might not be as intuituve as you may have come to appreciate.
