I recently made the switch from vim to helix. It turns out that I don't really like screwing around with my vim config for hours and hours. Helix has great defaults (themes, LSP already installed, syntax highlighting already installed and enabled for popular languages) and that's made a huge difference for me.

My vim config was at least a hundred lines, and that's not counting the endless plugins. My helix config is three or four lines to set my theme persistently and disable auto-filling parens. Something like:

    theme = "onedark"
    
    [editor]
    auto-pairs = false

And Helix doesn't even support plugins (yet), so this is all bundled with the default install.

Are you running master, or the latest release? I had some odd bugs when I ran the latest release.

Helix is surprisingly good for how young it is. I agree that movements in Kakoune and Helix are more intuitive.

I'm on the latest release because their was a copr available for Fedora. I haven't noticed any issues so far but have only used it for a couple hours at this point.

This may be a low effort reply, but I also started using helix recently and it has been absolutely wonderful. I haven't customized it at all yet and I have yet to find something that just doesn't make sense by default.

Definitely good to try different editors, but don't write off the OG editors.

There have many, many editors hoping to make vi and emacs obsolete, yet decades later they still are heavily used. Not true for some of the newer contenders --- time is a great filter.