> On Linux, the toolchain is usually just a package manager command away. On the other hand, “Visual Studio” is thousands of components.

That package manager command, at the very least, pulls in 50+ packages of headers, compilers, and their dependencies from tens of independent projects, nearly each of them following its own release schedule. Linux distributions have it much harder orchestrating all of this, and yet it's Microsoft that cannot get its wholly-owned thing together.