Why is it allowed to delete the WSL distribution on vscode?

[PatrickZhao12]

Type: Bug

Why is it allowed to delete the WSL distribution on vscode? When I couldn't connect to WSL through vscode, I accidentally clicked the "Delete distro" button, which caused the deletion of the WSL image and had a great impact on my work. I was very angry. vscode should not provide such a dangerous operation on a plug-in. It is really stupid.

Extension version: 0.88.5
VS Code version: Code 1.97.2 (e54c774e0add60467559eb0d1e229c6452cf8447, 2025-02-12T23:20:35.343Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22631
Modes:

System Info

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CPUs	11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz (8 x 2803)
GPU Status	2d_canvas: enabled canvas_oop_rasterization: enabled_on direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok gpu_compositing: enabled multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on opengl: enabled_on rasterization: enabled raw_draw: disabled_off_ok skia_graphite: disabled_off video_decode: enabled video_encode: enabled vulkan: disabled_off webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled webgpu: enabled webnn: disabled_off
Load (avg)	undefined
Memory (System)	15.71GB (6.37GB free)
Process Argv	--crash-reporter-id 2458fd61-fa41-408e-a00c-7e707273686e
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%

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[aeschli]

I'm sorry to hear that.
There is a dialog that emphasizes that all data is lost...