I had the exact opposite experience just then. Installed helix, and nothing 'worked'. LSP wouldn't start, syntax highlighting didn't work, and once I did get t

I had the exact opposite experience just then. Installed helix, and nothing 'worked'. LSP wouldn't start, syntax highlighting didn't work, and once I did get them working, editing JSX caused strange issues where the autopair functionality created a duplicate of my code several lines above where I was working.. Not particularly impressed tbh. It was very fast to start and use the fuzzy search though.