Did Visual Studio Code really make it harder to edit a SVG in a text editor?
That is some terrible UX decision-making for a text editor. I’m sorry. But I won’t pull any punches there. It’s a bad decision.
Instead of a sensible default for a text editor, I now have to go configure 2 different options and install an extension (figuring out which of the many extensions to install).
Looking at it, it seems like the original issue that caused this regression was Image preview does not work for SVGs. It was opened by a user with a single sentence, no issue summary, no discussion, no feedback. The PR for it was approved by two people without any real sort of review. There is much more feedback to revert this issue then there was for it, but no action has been taken. The image preview was also already provided by one of those extensions.
Hopefully the issue gets more traction and a better way to preview SVGs without making it much harder to edit them in a text editor gets added.