There are still people not even using an editor, but rather using vibe-coding apps like lovable.

Also,I don't mean to be rude to cursor but the fact that they are literally just a vscode wrapper still, to this day makes me really crazy thinking that the value of an AI editor could be so high..

I think it was the lack of competition really, Cursor (IMO) always felt like the biggest player, I think there was continue.dev before that, but that's all I know before Cursor.

After Cursor became a hit, there are lot more things now like (Void editor?) etc.

Also, if you Find Vscode editor slow, try zed. But like my brother said to me when I was shilling zed, Vscode is just for manipulating texts and using LSP. He personally didn't feel like it was there any meaningful slowness to Vscode even though he had tried zed. Zed has Ai stuff too iirc

Now Sure, they could've created CLI, but there are a lot of really decent CLI like SST/opencode and even gemini cli. Though I have heard good things about claude code too.

Honestly, I just think that any efforts in anything is cool. I just like it when there are a lot of options and so things stay a little competitive I guess.