I see. When in doubt, I really would recommend to use VS CE as it builds a product family with VS Pro and Enterpire Edition, which is the de-facto industry standard for C++ development on Windows, while VS Code is an entirely different product sharing a similar name for the sake of marketing. So there will be more folks around that will be able to give you advice if you should run into any difficulties.
You are right, VS CEs interface is absolutely not reduced or simplistic, but this does not only mean that there are more and more powerfull tools included but also that you have the possibility to look around through the menus to discover what options and configurations you can make use of.