Weird, I've had exactly the opposite experience. Neovim seems to have much more usable defaults IMO, I was able to decrease my config size a fair amount when I

Weird, I've had exactly the opposite experience. Neovim seems to have much more usable defaults IMO, I was able to decrease my config size a fair amount when I stopped trying to maintain a vim-compatible config file, in large part because of the settings that were already default in nvim.