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 ;)