there's a couple of issues open on this and one was closed as "not a bug, this is intentional, we really want our program thats actually a web page to feel like a web page" and the other is still open, with some comments a couple weeks ago like "yo is this ever going to be looked at, it should be like 8 lines of code to make this a config option surely"

im sure you can do per-application cursor overrides on linux by creating some files called like cursor.override.d/10-disable-hand-cursors-vscode.conf inside a maze of directories that will stop working in 3 months when you update the window manager, or on windows by installing a 10kb exe called "Bud's Cursor Smasher" that sits in the system tray with a little icon of bud himself giving you a thumbs up and a tooltip keeping track of Number Of Cursor's Smashed

on unix, everything is a file, whereas, on windows 9x, everything is an interactive desktop buddy

when i set up a linux desktop machine, i'm like "oh jeez how the fuck did i get that thing to work the way i wanted 5 years ago. i've copied my dotfiles and it's still not working, and i have no way of remembering all the extremely dull-sounding configuration directories i'm supposed to look in" whereas setting up a windows machine i'm like "hell yeah, i want Bob's Configuration Configurator, i want Spiderman5000's Windows Defenestrator, i want Tweakfucker's Ultimate Utility Script,

it's a journey, setting a new windows install, it's like blues brothers, youre getting all these guys from the shareware forums back together to play one last Remove Tracking Services for the orphans down in Task Manager