With VSCode / VSCodium, do I have to install Ansible Language Server manually?

[blue928]

I'm new to Ansible, and I'm installing support for VSCode / VSCodium on a new laptop (MacOs.) I'm following the instructions here:

https://open-vsx.org/extension/redhat/ansible (as well as the ansible docs for Ansible and ansible-lint)

The requirements state I need Ansible 2.9+ and ansible-lint, Redhat YAML, and Python all of which are installed, and ansible-lint --version returns:

ansible-lint 6.11.0 using ansible 2.14.1

The Ansible VSCode docs suggest I need ASL in place for Intellisense, docs, etc to work, but does not explicitly state that I need to install it per the requirements, and I know for a fact I didn't install NPM or run the command in the ASL docs.

Are the VSCode docs missing this step, or is this installed as part of that extension? Or am I missing something else to get the extension to work?

Thanks!