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by vr46 3378 days ago
I think it's a great effort and it's looks really good, both visually and metaphorically. However, my reservations:

Beginners may find it hard to learn and extract its secrets. The code is wrapped up like a pass-the-parcel game. My .vimrc/init.vim files are comprehensive yet easy to read in one hit. One use-case for my config is that I frequently lob the whole thing at friends and colleagues and they have a complete picture - plugins and configuration - immediately.

This system is a completely different path for using Vim, and will definitely work for many people, but one of the major problems of any configuration distribution is that users make a choice by selecting it, to work with its abstraction and often only that. Hacking things in quickly might work, but it might make a mess. The first update or git pull/rebase after a hack... well, it could go wrong.

Appealing if you never want to do anything to Vim.