[tingol]

That's a community based plugin, Vim is still focused on text editing and not much else.

[marcosdumay]

Most of the functionality on the editors like vim and emacs comes from community based plugins. People would mostly not use them if there were no such expansions.

[barumi]

This baseless assertion is simply wrong. Plugins are nice to have, but the bulk of their use is to customize default installs.