I am trying to hide unnecessary files and folders from the Project view in Fleet. Based on the few resources available on the internet I understood that I have to use the files.exclude key in settings.json file.
I tried doing that. But it isn't working. Files and folders are still visible. Please help me if you know how to hide the files and folders to avoid a bloated environment; it's really distracting.

Where did you configure this option? Please try to configure it here: