> Yeah, sadly there are entry level laptops cheaper than a phone or said monitor plus a keyboard and mouse
Many people already have a monitor, mouse, and keyboard lying around. They'll also have a phone already. Plus, there are very cheap docks where you can just slide your phone into a laptop shell, priced similarly to the worst and most awful Chromebooks imaginable.
Yeah, sadly there are entry level laptops cheaper than a phone or said monitor plus a keyboard and mouse. I said "or" not "and".
Plus you know, people cursing Apple for making Mac OS look more like iOS. I don't think the great convergence will happen any time soon.
> browser based debugging only, but there are cloud based versions of VS Code you can use
So nothing works offline.