With extensive use of plugins and configuration (especially LSP servers) you can get very close to an IDE experience, and many people including me use it to nav

With extensive use of plugins and configuration (especially LSP servers) you can get very close to an IDE experience, and many people including me use it to navigate commercial codebases just fine. It depends a bit on what language you use, but people who claim (neo)vim is a bad IDE are IMO wrong.