> But maintaining an up-to-date (n)vim setup seems like a huge time sink. In my experience, plugins are constantly deprecated and forked, or have breaking chang

> But maintaining an up-to-date (n)vim setup seems like a huge time sink. In my experience, plugins are constantly deprecated and forked, or have breaking changes that need to be debugged. I think it's worth putting the effort in to learning core vim functionality. Once you do then you find that you don't need some of those plugins that you're having trouble with. These days I run with a pretty light .vimrc and no plugins.