[nemild]

I wish I could upvote your comment many times. I wish the parent comment pointed out what use case they have for Vim, as this really dictates the "right" approach.

I wrote about this previously in the context of Vim vs Emacs, though it's similar to customized vimrc/plugins vs vanilla vimrc:

"One can reduce part of the [editor] debate down to a single question: how fully featured do you want your text editor out of the box? If you’re a DevOps engineer who spins up new environments constantly you’ll have different ideas about the best choice compared to a full stack engineer working in a single development environment that can be painstakingly setup. For the DevOps engineer, a light text editor that is installed by default is likely ideal, while for a developer with a single computer, a full-featured IDE (auto-completion, plug-ins, custom keys) is worth the high setup cost."

https://www.nemil.com/musings/betterdebates.html