No, it's not clunky. The plugin community is just a lot more active, imo. I personally avoid plugins wherever I can, since I prefer to write my own little Lua scripts that do stuff the way I like. (And I quite like the Lua API-- the lua plugins I use seem be a lot faster/less janky than the vimscript ones, as well? not sure)

datapoint: lazyvim has had 127 releases since it was first released. Which was in november or something like that, maybe just 7-8 months ago.

Yeah, likely to update all the plugins it uses or something. I don't use it so unsure :)

It has a lockfile, so it feels relatively sane, I can update only when I have time. It's been working well.

My feeling is that neovim per se, as a piece of software, is fine, but that it belongs to one of those developer communities that prizes freedom and infinite configurability over the day-to-day practicality of getting things done. So something like LSP integration has too many ways to do it across too many plugins.

If you are deeply involved in the community and are willing to put in the time, sure, you could probably build something superior to vscode. But the time invested to get there might not be worth the marginal productivity gains.

> But the time invested to get there might not be worth the marginal productivity gains.

Most of the time invested has been invested by other people. My own nvim setup is just a curated list of other people suggestions. I haven't put a lot of research into it and I still find it easier/superior to use than some other editor/ide like vscode.