I have transitioned from years of macfuse + sshfs on Mac to just installing the excellent “mountain duck” tool which gives you finder and mount point access to an sftp endpoint.
As a recently returned rsync.net customer, I was a bit surprised to peruse the docs and see that Fuse/sshfs is still up as a recommended option for Mac integration (see https://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/mac_sshfs.html). A few months ago this led me down the path of trying ExpanDrive/StrongSync, but this is the first I've heard of Mountain Duck (love Cyberduck though). I'm looking forward to giving it a spin now but if it has been working well for you please consider updating this page for others. Happy customer otherwise!
Mountain Duck has been my goto as well. That said, for VSCode the Remote SSH extenion from Microsoft helps greatly in working with repositories on VMs and other remote machines.
Libfuse / SSHFS for MacOS started becoming a real burden to try and use a ome years back and it lead me to mountain duck as well.
I have transitioned from years of macfuse + sshfs on Mac to just installing the excellent “mountain duck” tool which gives you finder and mount point access to an sftp endpoint.
Very nice software and indispensable for me.