The C/C++ extension may be used only with Microsoft Visual Studio, Visual Studio for Mac, Visual Studio Code, Azure DevOps, Team Foundation Server, and successor Microsoft products and services to develop and test your applications.
Haaaaa, I see now, noted this yesterday and I thought it was something broken in my code refactor modernization.
Also, SFTP extension is broken and the only working version is by Natizyskunk.
Stop blaming MS for nothing. These plugins were never meant to be used outside of the MS Marketplace. All these wrappers around the MS Marketplace were illegal in the first place, and cursor developers should have warned about that from the beginning!
VS Code is open source, but the MS Marketplace is not