It’s not a bug, it’s a feature
It's a bad one: if I'm unable to get that version of your IDE, the tutorial becomes useless. If it had stuck to programming essentials like the source code & configuration files, then it'd have enduring value as the reader could understand without unnecessary concealment of basic information dependent on an IDE.
no bloat from going through everything twice (once for VS, once for VS Code)
Not implied: the tutorial would properly focus on the programming without IDE complications as it shows the files generated & dependencies linked. (eg, "I did this in my IDE: here's what it did".) The reader could in principle use any text editor. It's not an IDE tutorial.
Microsoft hasn’t written a tutorial for this topic, at all, right?
And you made another Microsoft-grade tutorial: that's not a compliment.