I understand where you are coming from, but in my case having anything be auto-installed is just a pain. My distro of choice is NixOS where installing stuff wor

I understand where you are coming from, but in my case having anything be auto-installed is just a pain. My distro of choice is NixOS where installing stuff works fundamentally different from most other distros. When I tried it, lsp-mode just wasn't aware of it (not sure if it does now, but considering this space is vast, it is simply impossible to support every distro out there). Which means automated installation simply didn't work and I had to spend lot of time finding issues. For Emacs newbie it was a terrible pain. Compared to that, I was done setting up Eglot + language server in 2 minutes flat, there was no config needed and it Just Worked!