The point and power of vim or neovim and the others is plugins in my opinion. It can be customized to make you faster at what you do. I love my setup. It works great for me. I can’t use a full IDE, I’m broken in that way.
Most VIM proponents mention the power of VIM's editing grammar as a selling point. I think the idea of having an editing grammar is good but VIM does it at the wrong level; text, instead of syntax aware tree.