FWIW it took effort for me to choose and curate my nvim plugins, but there's almost 0 time and effort invested in maintaining it. Occasionally CoC will ask me

FWIW it took effort for me to choose and curate my nvim plugins, but there's almost 0 time and effort invested in maintaining it. Occasionally CoC will ask me to update it, that's running a single command. That's it, as long as you're not constantly looking for new tools and plugins (we've all been there), once you settle on your setup, there is no maintenance whatsoever.