I would argue that boilerplates should be minimized in the first place. Regardless how fast it is to generate them, reading them over and over again together with the code human write is a huge waste of energy.

So a generator tool is built in instead of installed via a package manager? Doesn’t sound like a big advantage, you still have to know that those tools are there and learn how to use them so you’re only saving the amount of time it takes to run npm i —global yo once. Same thing with snippets and emmet and a myriad of other shortcuts. Having a huge selection to choose from gives the advantage to VSCode in my book.