I use both PyCharm and VS Code regularly and have now sufficient experience with them to compare them. For pure Python development I like PyCharm a little more, for full-stack development I like VS Code more. For my use cases, they are not that far apart.
Visual Studio Code seems to be the cool new programming editor and IDE in town. I wanted to give it a try and compare it to PyCharm which I usually use.
For work I use the JetBrains IDE PyCharm and CLion. The UI generally has a high information density and one can display tons of little panels. They now have a new UI which they urged me to try out. But I am not impressed at all, I find it to be a big step backwards.