"We feel that the icon denotes 'openness,'" Dias said. "It conveys that VS Code is (in a good way) a subset of our big brother, the Visual Studio IDE. And, if you look hard enough, you'll find a small ...

Microsoft has highlighted the UI changes coming to Visual Studio 2022, including new iconography, fonts, improvement to dark theme, color contrast adjustments, accent color modifications, and more.

This should fix the icon issue with your copy of Visual Studio Code. If you still have issues, doubts, and alternate solutions, please let me know in the comments section.