VSCode Go extension auto-sets *.sum/*.mod ownership to root

Usinc the latest VSCode (1.40.1 at the time of the post) with the default Go extension (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode.Go) with the default config.

Every time one would work with a Go project, some functionality (VSCode or the Go extension) updates some go.mod or go.sum files and sets file-ownership to root:root. This happens on saving some of the Go source files (which triggers some auto module/sum check or something).

One has to explicitly chown the file ownership to $USER:$USER all the time.

Question

Any clues how to make sure the file ownership not getting changed?

Potential reason

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-go/issues/2730