As found by the asker, according to Tool enablement is per window, how do I set it globally? #266058, this appears to be a bug, and the list of activated tools should be stored globally per profile. The issue ticket indicates that the milestone is the 1.106 VS Code release, so I'd suggest doing an update if you haven't already and trying it out again. If it's still not working as described in 1.106, you could comment on the issue ticket with details on how you can reproduce the problem locally.