I've seen a number of announcements but this is the first 'I'm excited!' post I've seen that includes any information about what is being added.

Strike that, not entirely true: there was one good post 37 days ago, "Neovim is overpowering", that I liked a lot[1].

[1] https://crispgm.com/page/neovim-is-overpowering.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27291302

What do folks these days use with vim-lsp to get an IDE-like experience? I’m wondering if it would be better than a coc/ccls setup.

I went back to coc from nvim's native lsp. I think the nvim lsp world needs another year to stabilize and mature. The default lsp configs are pretty rudimentary and make big assumptions like every project root is a git repo. You can't easily just have a project specific LSP configuration file like you can with coc. And installing each LSP is a real chore with various competing plugins instead of the easy built-in coc install commands.

Apart from some node issues early on, CoC has worked well for me. At some point I’ll try the native lsp, but it seems like a lot of setup, just to get back to where I already am.