[pasabagi]

My experience with vim is that if you start with the default, it's probably too frustrating. Most plugins are essentially training-wheels: less efficient, but more intuitive means of carrying out basic tasks. For instance, 'easymotion' is far simpler than learning all the text objects and how to move around them, but it also requires another keypress and is less effective.

I think a lot of batteries-included stuff, at its best, is like that - stuff that you don't fundamentally need, but that puts a smoother corner on the rough and unshapely form of something that cares more about power than intuitiveness.