I feel the same way after diving into the NVIM world a while ago. I put in the hours, spent like 10 hours trying to setup the environment to my liking, and ran

I feel the same way after diving into the NVIM world a while ago. I put in the hours, spent like 10 hours trying to setup the environment to my liking, and ran into the same issues as you, autocomplete being a pain in the ass, having to figure out what these all plugins are etc.. But at least I found out I can just clone my vim plugins from git repositories with vim-plug, which was an improvement over my previous pathogen setup. VSCode is just killing it with the feeling of having a complete setup and everything actually working, vs having to spend days figuring out how to setup a VIM environment these days.