[mellosouls]

To an extent, probably. It was the first serious (post GPT3 for all its flaws) AI assistant, but even so I'm not sure it was ever the default choice because it wasn't until after ChatGPT got released that AI capabilities started getting mainstream awareness.

Then ofc Cursor took off, but even then normie coders were AI-sceptical or mostly aware through ChatGPT.

Devin was only ever hype.

I still use Copilot (I've been a subscriber since first available) but in concert with ChatGPT/Codex and Cursor & Warp, so it tends to take a backseat.

I would expect most usage of it to be via VSCode until recently.

So perhaps it was always a secondary choice (despite being the pilot) to the trailblazers like Cursor and Claude Code but it has an important place in history and as a monthly subscription it's one of the best value ones so still worth looking at.