[CjHuber]

Exactly that's why I was making the comparison, It's not a in your face PopUp, where users get used to just pressing the blue, highlighted and glowing "I trust the authors" button without even being told what features they'd miss out on.

The Protected view in Office instead tells you "Be careful" and to only activate editing when you need to.

[WorldMaker]

It's also worth noting that this behavior evolved very slowly. It took Excel decades to learn how to best handle the defaults. Excel started with modals similar to VS Code's "Do you want to allow macros? This may be dangerous", found too many users self-trained on "Allow" as the only button that needed to be pressed and eventually built the current solution.

If VS Code is still on the same learning curve, hopefully it speeds up a bit.