Yes, you’re right, and what you suggest is what i think about recently.
I think it will be very friendly for developer using VS code/PlatformIO for RAK boards.
You, me, and other interested developers, all of us can discuss about it in this forum topic.
So i think it is a nice suggestion, and if you like, you can lead this topic.
More information:
We’ve deleloped a firmware framework named RUI for RAK boards, actually it can be used for RAK8211 series, RAK8212 series, and RAK815 now. In the future, RUI will support other RAK boards.
RUI can be compiled with GCC, so i think it may be helpful to make a VS code/PlatformIO template, but i don’t know if it is. Maybe you can have a look at this open source project.
My GitHub account is crmrosa. I will try to understand the RUI because I have some good ideas how to improve my RAK5205 behavior. May be it could be a good start of my RUI learning process.