I heavily disagree. From experience, working over SSH with tmux allows me to work with my editor, run commands, start up various qemu instances, start debuggers etc, and other tools that have their own TUIs. I think remote VSCode makes sense to people who have very narrow needs to edit specific projects rather than live on a remote machine.
The terminal window from VSCode still gives you all of that, with some extra ergonomics from the GUI. No need to remember ctrl b + % to split a Tmux window, scrolling and find just works, no need to install plugins to save sessions.
