I do use intellij just in a limited way, just don't see it sorry. "VCS integration" & "semantic highlighting" are just basic stuff eveyone has so idk why you bring those up. I rarely use any VCS integration other than diff and merge so even if there is none at all I'm fine with cli. However vscode has a very powerful 3rd party extension for git (git lenses) that has more features than intelij built-in, and the built-in support for github is built by the github team themselves so that's worth something.
"all the kind of hints": I don't think this is the job of an IDE, this is something that linters do very well and I trust them more than I trust a software that tries to do all things under the sun. Take python for example, vscode has support for 8 or so popular linters and will populate useful hints if you intstall one or even many of them. So you have both power and choices.
It may have better autocomplete for some language (I doubt typescript) or refactoring but those are things I don't really care about that much. I've used those in kotlin & scala, their support seem nice but the hints and refactoring didn't blow my mind or anything.
"all the kind of hints": I don't think this is the job of an IDE, this is something that linters do very well and I trust them more than I trust a software that tries to do all things under the sun. Take python for example, vscode has support for 8 or so popular linters and will populate useful hints if you intstall one or even many of them. So you have both power and choices.
It may have better autocomplete for some language (I doubt typescript) or refactoring but those are things I don't really care about that much. I've used those in kotlin & scala, their support seem nice but the hints and refactoring didn't blow my mind or anything.