The downside of this is more wife/family use and appeal if the server goes down. One thing goes south while I’m not there and my family would murder me.

I actually was a Notepad++ fanatic for years and still use it lightly but I have made the switch to VSCode about 6 months ago and I’ll never look back. As the other commenter said you absolutely can mount files from multiple workspaces as well. Hell you can even copy files between file systems.