The other day, I had a problem with Sublime Text not playing nicely with whatever version of GIO/GVFS I had on the system to open a file over SFTP. I went back to Vim and the netrw plugin because I didn't like the idea of paying $20 for a Sublime Text plugin for something it should be doing natively.

Cue 2 hours of cursing at the Vim setup - there were no errors, I just didn't get any remote directory listings in netrw. I also didn't have any colours for some reason, and #vim on Freenode couldn't help.

Sometimes, the older tools are just as frustrating.