I use vim for years, too but also I keep my .vimrc and, more recently, .vim in a git repo (using bare repos for dot files discussed here: https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles). So, getting a functional environment on a new system is close to running `git pull` once.

I don’t update plugins too often, because they work, but I also don’t use too many. Based on my git history, I last updated a vim plug-in 11 months ago.