The neovim integration is better than the main vim plugin IMO, since it's not trying to emulate the myriad features of actual vim. I wish the current top Vim plugin had taken the neovim-as-backend approach. Oh well.

The noevim plugin is decent, and allows most of your vimrc mappings, but it definitely has it's quirks. If the quirks got smoothed out VSCode + neovim plugin might just be perfect.