I picked up Sublime Text + Merge a few months ago (I wanted Sublime Text and figured I'd try out Merge since the bundle was cheaper), and it turns out I use Sublime Merge way more. (Sublime Text is fine but for my workflow it has a bunch of gaps with Visual Studio that I haven't been able to fill).

Sublime Merge and vscode + git plugins are pretty close to each other but Sublime Merge does everything I need with less fuss. vscode just has some rough edges due to it's swiss-army knife approach that Sublime Merge doesn't.