JWT is a way to express claims. JWS is the underlying data format.
JWTs are still profiled for their usage - the JWT you use under ACMEv2 is going to be different than the ID Tokens you get from OpenID Connect, or some bespoke cookie format by a product/site.
A VC-JWT is a profile JWTs for use with Verifiable Credentials. Part of this is adding new claims to hold JSON-LD formatted credential / presentation data.
JWTs are still profiled for their usage - the JWT you use under ACMEv2 is going to be different than the ID Tokens you get from OpenID Connect, or some bespoke cookie format by a product/site.
A VC-JWT is a profile JWTs for use with Verifiable Credentials. Part of this is adding new claims to hold JSON-LD formatted credential / presentation data.