I use Code OSS with clangd and the nvim extension (because Microsoft disabled their c/c++ tools) because i want access to the nrfconnect extension pack as a beginner. I don't have to go searching in the documentation and compiling, then recompiling 10 times to self-discover the required devicetree parameters and figure out what drivers are available vs mainline zephyr.
Plus the debug interface works well.
For everything else possible it is vim/neovim, but I haven't been able to find good neovim setup for nrfconnect.
I think the exception to this might be excel. It was so much better than most if not all similar software at the time.
Also the android Microsoft lens app has been amazing for years, better, much faster, and often clearer than all open source alternatives and most closed source alternatives while requiring no account, bad permissions, etc... It was almost like they made it well and forgot about it for years. However Microsoft just did a big UI update on it recently so I am expecting it to be enshittified soon...