There is a huge difference between running sshfs and vscode remote.
vscode remote tries to completely put the user on the remote machine, the terminal, the environment and anything else the remote box has access to the user can work with it. It allows me to connect to my dev environment (remote box) from any PC, or with the right setup even a browser.
In my team this allowed us to setup a consistent dev environment where everyone has access to the same specs, same environment, easy to manage access control sensitive systems from that remote machine on forward etc... sshfs or using sftp that many of the older IDEs did, don't come close to making it so seamless.
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There is a huge difference between running sshfs and vscode remote. vscode remote tries to completely put the user on the remote machine, the terminal, the environment and anything else the remote box has access to the user can work with it. It allows me to connect to my dev environment (remote box) from any PC, or with the right setup even a browser.
In my team this allowed us to setup a consistent dev environment where everyone has access to the same specs, same environment, easy to manage access control sensitive systems from that remote machine on forward etc... sshfs or using sftp that many of the older IDEs did, don't come close to making it so seamless.