For me, LazyVim has been the easiest to config my own way of all the configuration setups. I’ve used many of the other ones, and they all felt so hard to make a change with them. LazyVim just works and is easy to add to and change things around.
I had the same personal experience (compared to spacevim, doomvim and lunarvim). I just want something feature rich working out of the box, like many other IDEs… With easy access to keyboard shortcut hints. And I want to be able to customize without breaking it. So far, I have been using doom emacs. The reason is that vim didn’t have a curated set of plugins that I could tinker with without being frustrated. Again, this was my personal experience with it over the years. I just kept ‘raw’ vim, and used many other CLI tools around it (e.g. lazygit, a python REPL, etc.)
I never picked up any of these languages to be honest… I mean, vimscript or Lua.
Maybe if I had, my experience would have been another. I know many people that know basic vimscript prefer to have ‘vanilla’ config, sometimes not even using vimplug or pkg managers. And they got along better than I did with my empty vimrc ;)
