[__MatrixMan__]

Well yes, but that's the point.

I think it's analogous to zsh/fish, either you think that customizing is fun and you want to spend time doing it, or you want a nice set of features enabled by default and a minimal config footprint. Can't have both.

[eviks]

You can have both, it's called "good defaults", then you don't need to customize anything if you don't like customizing. But you can.

Also, helix doesn't have minimal config, it has dozens of various options even before potentially hundreds of keybindings, so you can get buried there "for fun" just like in vim