Setting it up from scratch isn't, but if you just want something that works you can always go with one of the pre-made distributions, which is about as plug and

Setting it up from scratch isn't, but if you just want something that works you can always go with one of the pre-made distributions, which is about as plug and play as you can get. I've had colleagues that were up and running after 10min with all the bells and whistles you expect from a modern IDE by just setting up LazyVim. Really the hardest part is the modal editing workflow, which is just inherent in how vim and nvim work - and I would recommend to set up regardless of which editor you use (e.g. by using the VSCode Neovim plugin)