Good read. My strategy for avoiding all the vim porn and "plugin-madness" is to never install a plugin or mapping/override without learning to do the thing manually in vanilla vim.
This way you'll KNOW if that plugin is really worth the bloat, and if you do end up away from your config on a remote server you're just mildly uncomfortable instead of dead in the water.
What's with this attitude? The guy wrote a blog post and by definition he can write what's in his mind at his desired level of length and verbiage.
It's not like he was asked to write the eject procedure manual of a spacecraft...
