At which point I could deploy to paths outside of the packages folder. p.s. I know this is not exactly how Paket was intended to be used, but my toolset (Unity3d) does not support the "proper way" to use Paket. And no, I don't want to use Paket.Unity3D. Member forki commente...
You need Unity 2021 or higher and the "Visual Studio Editor" package version 2.0.20 or above installed in your Unity project. Remove any old, deprecated VS Code packages from Unity. Install the new Unity Extension in Visual Studio Code, which will also install necessary dependencies like the ...