To be fair, I think it would.
def blah(escape_code: str) -> str:
'''The only escape code `blah()` currently supports is '\e'.'''
return escape_code
Currently, if you hover over blah() in vscode, this will render as The only escape code blah() currently supports is '\e'., however, if \e was added as an escape code, it could end up rendering as The only escape code blah() currently supports is ' '.. Why? Because if you change the docstring to The only escape code blah() currently supports is '\n'. vscode will render it as The only escape code blah() currently supports is ' '..
Personally, >90% of my time spent reading docstrings is spent reading docstrings via vscode.
I think you’d probably have the same problem with other applications that render docstrings.