Since it looks like we're heading into a period of good competition between vim and neovim, I'd give neovim a serious try if you haven't already. It has a well

Since it looks like we're heading into a period of good competition between vim and neovim, I'd give neovim a serious try if you haven't already. It has a well-developed async architecture that most major plugins take advantage of, if sensible, and it has embedded terminal functionality. For the moment, vim 8 doesn't have async plugins to match, so after trying neovim for a while, you can switch back to vim 8 once its plugins catch up and get a better comparison.