I worked this way for ages, but over time I came to appreciate some modern IDE-like conveniences like linters (I use ALE for this stuff). Especially thanks to L

I worked this way for ages, but over time I came to appreciate some modern IDE-like conveniences like linters (I use ALE for this stuff). Especially thanks to LSP (which neovim supports natively, though I stick to upstream Vim myself) you can get a lot of value from these. I think it's easy to go overboard though. A lot of plugins (and these meta-plugins) provide little value over what vim can do on its own with a little configuration.