Yeah, I've used Vim since the mid-nineties too. At first it was my "edit a config file in my RedHat 5.2" tool. Later, the more and more actual software dev I did, it became a daily driver. I am pretty sold on the "Vim way".

I have a workflow. It's hard for me to adopt new things into my worflow because my workflow works so well. I finally made the switch to NeoVim just over a year ago because I wanted to see what the fuss was about. I have to say, it's now firmly entrenched in my workflow. It's to the point where I'd be annoyed if I had to go back.

The one sticky point about your post that I wanted to highlight:

>I personally don't like Lua much

I can say that almost anything is better than VimScript... I hate every moment I have to mess around with it. The hardest part is, I don't use it for anything else so every time I dive in, I have to remember how it works. At least Lua is a multipurpose language and documentation/help are plentiful.

But, I get that the whole intellisense, popup windows, bling... those things are not for everyone. If they don't enhance your workflow, then you're never going to desire them.