With coder you're not tied to quirks because your workflow/usecase does not fit to what the vendor had in mind. It's much more flexible. And the best thing: From a users/admin point of view, it's massively reduced in complexity compared to gitpod. This is especially visible on updates - which are basically a new binary and not tens of GB of container images, plus the fear that any of the hundreds of components will silently fail after the update is made.