VS Code extensions and themes

The final bullet deals with the irritating, but a considerably less dangerous avalanche of articles, tirelessly repeating the same stuff over and over again.

I would not mind, but the majority of these extensions, praised by their authors, are the first ones that appear as soon as one opens the extension sidebar in VS Code. Am I really the only one who bothers to check this very sidebar every now and then?

But not only that, their authors, instead of naming these articles timidly like THE WELL KNOWN EXTENSIONS I USE AND YOU ALL PROBABLY KNOW, advertise them like THE EXTENSIONS YOU HAVE NEVER HEARD OF. Preposterous!