[nextlevelwizard]

There is always people coming over from established purpose made IDEs who want to test to waters and bare vim is pretty feature parse out of the box, so these huge plugin & configuration monoliths offer easy stepping stone into vim.

Of course with these packages you are trading flexibility for features and you are inheriting ways of working from someone stranger, but it is not that much different than using any IDE. While this offers a nice(r) gate into vim-ming it does kind a miss the biggest perk of using vim - which is molding it to your exact needs and preferences, but that is not something you will do over night. I have been in both camps. I have installed way too many plugins and then gone to very sparse configuration. I think with NeoVim I have found somewhat of a balance, but I think reworking your vim config is a natural thing every five years or so. We grow as people and developers and our needs change and the tools evolve.