not without "breaking" the install, like in this extension. I've been wanting a way to set the font family for the UI, but that's not exposed by the settings and it would require this kind of "surgery". I never liked the idea of messing with VS Code files, so I never bothered changing this.
Out of curiosity, I don't get the "blocky" complaint; what kind of layout do you have in mind? Any apps that implement it?
With elementary math, consumers could easily calculate battery life by dividing watt-hours by power consumption.
Power consumption oscillates a lot, I don't find power useful at all other than for light bulbs. Capacity of a power bank, on the other hand, is somewhat comparable to your device's capacity - even though there are some losses in this transfer.
flake8-simplify has a bunch of rules like that for Python, most of which may be automatically fixed if you're using something like ruff, so you never have to spend time actually fixing it.
fwiw, VS Code has 3 "tooling areas" - for the lack of a better name - other than the editor itself:
A panel (bottom area) and two sidebars: primary (usually on the left) and secondary (usually on the right).
You can drag and drop tabs in each of these areas to move things around, and even split one of these areas to hold two or more things.
e.g.:
it's pretty flexible