Not gonna lie... I might rejoin the VSCode group soon.
PHPStorm is great, but... just feels so sluggish for what I get out of it.
The incoming VSC Laravel extension will likely be a great Laravel IDEA equivalent, and with some decent extension setup and better keybindings VSC can achieve most of the same functionality as the rest of PHPStorm.
Especially if you're used to using the CLI for things like git, tests, etc.
I may give another shot at VSCode as well, especially to try the Laravel extension. I am, however, closely monitoring the progress of Zed which look promising.
zed.dev
Oh yeah, Zed has been really neat. I've been using it as my Sublime/Atom/VSC alternative when I want a light editor for referencing code while I write in PHPStorm.
Once extension support increases for it, it'll definitely be a good alternative.