I love Vue and the concept of SFCs - but SFCs have a downside of DX tooling around it, and there is only one de-facto tool for it - Volar.

I have used Volar since its inception when it succeeded Vetur and watched it grow over the years. Unfortunately, these were painful years not without some hair-pulling moments.

My biggest gripe with Volar's development was the amount of breaking changes between each release. Every time a VSCode extension would auto-update, something would break; even more so if you used any of the Volar plugins for .vue file formatting such as volar-plugins/prettier. While I was chasing the latest versions, I have personally filed many issues on GitHub, some of which have been fixed but ultimately it was eating into my development time and I could no longer afford to do that. I have since stopped auto-updating the extension or any of dependencies.

My current setup includes an extension and dependencies that are 7 months old, and it works as expected. There were so many major version updates since then, that I've recently tried to update to it - with a predicted result: it broke formatting. Back to my old versions I go.