[soraminazuki]

> because vim wasn't exactly built with these kinds of features in mind and it shows when you start to throw a lot of IDE features into vim.

I disagree. Both Vim and Neovim are under active development, and have acquired many features to support IDE functionality.

> For example switching to very large text files with vanilla vim, doing some search and replace is no problem, it's super fast.

This has improved a lot in the last few years thanks to the async APIs.