It should be fine to revert the workaround. The problem in vsce should be fixed already. This reverts commit dcb08077f5.
dcb08077f5
Pinning vso-node-api version to 6.1.2-preview seems to work.
To avoid confusing prefix matching between patterns like vscode-boot-* and vscode-boot-properties-*, vscide-boot-java-* This would pontially cause weird version strings in concourse resources.