[mrinterweb]

I really haven't experienced this. There was one time i noticed vim slow down, and that was related to a relative line number bug specific to Mac, but that was fixed a while ago. I've used many of the ide type neovim premade configs, and i use my own which has a lot going on. None seem slow to me. Guess it has been a while since I've used a vanilla config. Full ide setups in neovim don't seem slow to me, especially compared to other full ides or vs code.

[techwizrd]

I also haven't experienced this much. I use the lazy loading functionality for vim-plug, along with async where I can. My neovim starts up in only a few milliseconds and avoids loading most plugins until I open specific file types or use a specific command.

[mrinterweb]

One more thing. You can start neovim with different configs, so if you wanted to launch neovim with a super light config, it is possible to have both. Need to do some trickery with env vars, but it's not hard.