Microsoft Visual Studio Code w/ ESP-IDF Extension Usage

Is anyone using Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VSC) with the ESP-IDF Extension to program the ESP32?  I was finding too many limitations of the Arduino Core wrapper (ACW) on the ESP32, so I started using VSC.  It took quite a while to get a successful build/upload of some of the examples. 

Now, I'm having the opposite problem from the ACW.  There are literally a thousand or two settings that can be modified.  They have a little tool-tip info button, but that is not nearly enough information for informed decisions.  The defaults seem to work for the examples which is a good start...

But once I get deep into a project and if I get a run time error that is not an obvious bug, I'll need to tuning these parameters.  Here are a small fraction of some of the parameters that we've never seen in the Arduino IDE's, dumbed-down settings:

• Compiler optimizations for speed/size w/ and w/o debugging
• VDDSDIO LDO Voltage (have no clue)
• Adjusting watchdog parameters
• App rollback on OTA 😎 
• Signing the binary image
• Flash encryption
• Custom definition of the partition table
• Enabling C++ exceptions
• Setting cache sizes, and associated ways???
• Memory protection
• Queue size
• Event loop stack size
• Main task stack size
• Shared stack size
• High resolution timer stack size
• Brown out minimum voltage setting (down to 2.44V)
• Running FreeRTOS on only one core... if wanting to run some totally alien process on the second core.
• ... and a thousand others!

Question:  Has anyone seen a reference that goes into a detail on these parameters with the ramifications of each and possible guidance how to set them for various scenarios?

Thanks!

VBR,

Inq