Edit: I found this out via another users discovery here: PIO home will not load
Change the extension settings for the PIO Home Http Port to be something just outside the range that is auto assigned when the setting has the default value of 0.
Im very tired but if that isn’t clear I will send a screenshot.
This will at the very least solve the PIO Home problems… (I was having sporratic errors trying to load PIO home and uninstalling PIO extension and ALL settings and extension directories… even doing a fresh install of vscode didn’t help… it was a false positive solution)