So Cursor 2.0 is out huh

Cursor 2.0 is out. Is that it? A new model and the UI I don't care to use?

Don't get me wrong - Cursor is still the best AI editor out there. Cursor Tab is borderline magic. When your project is clean and structured, and you move between files in a logical flow, it feels like the thing's reading my mind. But I've got some issues.

1. Still stuck eight months in the past

Cursor is way behind from the upstream. Way behind. The whole point of VS Code and its extensions ecosystem is the insanely active development cycle - constant updates, bug fixes, extensions that just work. Cursor doesn't seem to care.

Cursor 2.0, released today, is still based on VS Code 1.99.3, which is eight months old. That's like three JavaScript frameworks ago.

Instead of keeping the core editor up to date, they keep adding shiny new "features" no one asked for. Meanwhile, people can't even install half their extensions without errors.

And when confronted by the community on their forum, they just silently ignore the issues for months and continue to add shiny new features.

2. The extension-gate

Half the extensions I use are broken thanks to Microsoft's little "you should only use this in VS Code, not in forks" move earlier this summer. You know, the one that nuked C++, C#, TypeScript, Python and a bunch of others. Not Cursor's fault, but an unfair move by Microsoft (not cool!).

However, the end result still sucks. Cursor's TypeScript extension, for example, is stuck on a version from... 2023! Meanwhile, the VSCode version literally got an update yesterday. To their credit, Cursor tried to fix this by forking some of the popular extensions and publishing alternatives, but 6 months later they're all abandoned and just as outdated as the main editor.

I'm also still not sure which extension registry Cursor even uses. Is it open-vsx? Their own proxy of Microsoft's VS gallery? Some mystical mixture of both? Who knows.

And again - forum threads are ignored and support is ghosted. I feel like yelling into a Slack channel no one's checked since 2023.

The sad truth

Leaving aside all the other annoyances - like remapped default shortcuts (including `⌘+K`) and frequent, confusing pricing changes - Cursor is, unfortunately, still the best AI-powered editor out there. It's smart, it's fast, and when it works, it's genuinely impressive.

But I'm simply tired of using it for "AI only" and then switching to a "normal" editor for debugging, testing, hot-reload etc.

If they keep this up - ignoring the core experience while chasing buzzwords - I'll be switching. Maybe to Zed, maybe even back to vanilla VS Code + Claude Code. At least when something breaks there, I know who to yell at.