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I don't think you get my point. In the end it's simple. Helix misses many features I want and that exist in (N)Vim. To support all these features you need plugins because they cannot be all maintained by core and everyone wants different features anyways.

As long as there is no way to extend the editor for me or for anyone else (aside from contributing to core), I am not interested in adopting it when I have another option that already does all of these things I want.

So yes you need plugins but for that you first need a plugin system. If that takes a while I am totally fine with it. I am all for good software. But why should I currently choose it over nvim?