[szszrk]

I really think this is the best way to use it for many people. You need something more complex? It's ok to bundle vim with any of great IDE's out there.

I learned how to change colorscheme more than 20 years ago because my CRT monitor made it impossible to read comments on default themes. I use same command today on my local terminals, bastions accessible via web or remote sessions ... for basically the same reason.

If you code from one machine spending time to set up IDE and then leaving it be makes sense. But if you are more of an admin, or learn a lot and jump from host to host, from learning platform temporary environments to cloud environments, from mobile to some remote mainframe that is being decommissioned for past 7 years? You could just figure out how to change 2-3 basic options and have a predictable environment for next few decades.