LazyVim is what kept me using NeoVim. It made reproducing a usable setup much simpler.
I’m looking at implementing lazy.nvim, the package manager, but not LazyVim. Personally I like to be in control of everything and LazyVim takes too much away from me.
What does it take away?
For me LazyVim is just magic I don’t want to learn, along with preferring to have explicit control of the whole setup. Also migrating to something else takes more effort going from one magic to another magic. I’ve just finished migrating from packer to lazy.nvim and I like that I still have all the git history in my plugin/* files.
I’m very happy with my new “vanilla” lazy.nvim setup now.