[cookiengineer]

As a long time VIM user, I tend to agree with you in your points. VIM and its concept was built at a time when text was green, and when you had maybe 30 lines of code in front of you.

My hopes for NeoVIM were that they changed the concept in the sense to find a new grammar that is based on the AST (sentences could be statements, for example). Sadly NeoVIM kind of underdelivered, syntax highlighting and AST/linters were always completely broken for me when I tried them out.

No idea why, there might be still some issues from me there that were closed due to inactivity (as if time would fix bugs magically).

I kind of hope that the LSP revolution will lead to better IDE concepts that can bridge the gap between navigation and repetition efficiency and the code's AST insights.