I used both from, essentially, day 1 and had a similar experience. Obsidian is just fantastic and I vastly prefer keeping it separate from my coding, even for coding-related notes.
Though, once in a while I'll open the notes in VS Code just to make use of things like better find/replace, regex etc... - especially globally.
Though, once in a while I'll open the notes in VS Code just to make use of things like better find/replace, regex etc... - especially globally.