[aaachilless]

My experience has also been with a decaying amount of customization. As I get better with Vim I learn more and more how to do things in a "Vim-native" manner which I had previously needed plugins for. For example, when I first started using Vim, I relied heavily on NERDTree. These days, netrw works perfectly fine for me.

[kqr]

This is what I tend to hear from Emacs people too. Not an absence of cpnfiguration, just a surprisingly minimal amount because to them, the defaults start making sense. I have no idea if this is because the human learns the editor, or if it is the editor shaping the thoughts of the human, but it sounds nice and I sort of wish I would get there soon.