To highlight this, here is the Atom commit graph:
Here is the VS Code commit graph:
Note the scale of the y axes: VS Code is getting more than an order of magnitude more development effort than Atom is these days. Making and maintaining an IDE is expensive and Microsoft is spending money on VS Code rather than Atom. Unless someone has a plan to fund the maintenance and development of Atom independent of Microsoft, moving over to VS Code and trying to make the Julia part of that experience as smooth as possible is the only viable way forward.