This is what posting sleep deprived gets you. I was referring to the cli[0] and server[1] components, which have most of the meat. Sorry for the misunderstanding. That being said, I'd love to know which severe bugs disrupt your usage.
Embrace, extend and extinguish.
Tell everyone that it is ok to use this crap because it is open source, despite our being impossible to have the exact same fully featured vscode built from source.
[0] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/main/cli
[1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/main/src/vs/server