I've been using Visual Studio Code for a while now with Arduino and have become somewhat familiar with that workflow and quite prefer it to using the Arduino IDE.
I am not sure if you are familiar with vs code but I thought to ask you if you can comment on how the embedXCode environment compares to vs code? I am a macOS guy so I think I might like the embedXCode environment better because my general experience is UI issues are thought out much better in macOS. However, I do not have any actual experience using Xcode so wondering if there are limitations using Xcode compared to vs code for Arduino.
FWIW, I use the following extensions with vs code:
Arduino
Bookmarks
C/C++
Debugger for Chrome
Docker
Doxygen documentation
Git Graph
GitLens
npm
Python
SPICE