I thought I was going crazy, but it started feeling materially worse sometime in last few weeks.
Nope, not crazy. Pretty much solely used it for years but got a lazyvim* setup last week
Still has excellent integrated debugging and is more familiar than nvim, but it has really started to get in its own way the past couple minor versions
*Not "lazy I'm" (though perhaps I am for letting that slide)
after two decades my muscle memory in the terminal is pretty important. that + with keyboard shortcuts ive had multiple jobs ask me to "slow down" when doing screenshares as everything moves so fast.