VS Code's default Remote SSH feature installs and runs undesired software on the server for watching files and other purposes which I don't totally understand and don't care.

Is there some plugin or setup which provides a simple way to just tell VS Code in a workspace file or in settings my SSH Server Credentials and be able to edit files in the server in the same way I do with codeanywhere.com, where I can simple see the server files in a exploration bar to the left and edit files as tabs to the right.

It's totally the same thing I get with the default Remote SSH VSCode feature, except that I don't want to kill small servers by running additional expensive processes that take excess memory and CPU.

I also don't want to have to mount the remote file system with SSHFS unless that's managed automatically by some software because SSHFS requires a lot of fine tuning to keep the connection alive and everything, and I also would like to keep the option to open terminal tabs that are directly connected to my server...