What made me adopt it a while back was the work they put into the plugin system. I honestly don’t remember the technical details (better or real async maybe?)

What made me adopt it a while back was the work they put into the plugin system. I honestly don’t remember the technical details (better or real async maybe?) But the end result for me was being able to use things like deoplete without the editor pausing on me or missing keystrokes. My guess is these days bringing a newer vim with you vs relying on your distro’s probably has the same benefits. I only use plugins locally and haven’t bothered switching back.