VSCode extension: no way to see the currently active model in the UI

In the terminal CLI, there's an optional statusLine feature (and /status) that can surface the active model persistently. The VSCode native extension has no equivalent — there's no status bar item, sidebar indicator, or setting to show which model (Sonnet/Opus/Haiku/etc.) is currently active. Right now the only way to check is running /model or /usage on demand, which requires interrupting your flow to look it up. Request: add a persistent model indicator to the VSCode extension UI — e.g. a status bar item, similar to the terminal's statusline — so the active model is visible at a glance without running a command.

I'm trying hard to imagine an honest reason why would someone deliberately (this does not happen by accident) decided to leave out this crucial information from the UI and I can't think of any.

This, along with no clean pattern to transition from Opus in Plan mode to Sonnet to implement on Agent mode; is causing me grief and I can only assume is a deliberate dark pattern to get me to token/price max.

• No current model status means you are more likely to stay on a more expensive model by mistake
• Hiding the plan in a temp dir or readonly VSCode file adds extra copy/paste manual steps to transition into a more efficient model to implement.