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.
Ah! I'm open to moving to VS Code. The git tooling in PHP Storm is great though...
Yeah, Jetbrains git UI is one of the most straightforward I've used. Built in DB client also pretty great.
I've been wanting to "git gud" (heh) with git in the terminal anyway, and for most use cases VSC's git UI suffices too. Otherwise there's always SourceTree which I've found to be pretty good as a standalone app.
DB client wise there are some VSC extensions but they're a bit clunky to use, else there's TablePlus (paid), Sequel Ace, SQLite DB browser, etc...