It's been a while since I started using vim. I can see some similarities. Though, I didn't really do much configuration in the early days. Currently, I have pretty much no configs when it comes to key maps or some custom or shortcuts. I only add plugins for code completion and highlighting. Nothing else.
Honestly I'm the same, my .vimrc is mainly set commands for line numbers, highlighting matches, basic folding and setting backup/undo/swap directories.
I work as a JS Dev on a large(ish) React project with Vim, so I realised I did want modern facilities such as Coc.nvim and denite.nvim which are my two weaknesses. I tried using `set wildmenu` for a while but I found it difficult to use compared with my denite leader+r using rg.
Other than that I have four Tim Pope plugins (vinegar, fugitive, surround, and commentary). Fugitive I could live without as I rarely use it but I could not live without surround - I'd say it's my most useful plugin and doing the same in Vim was awkward.
Exactly! I like being able to log in to any server and use vim/vi without any issues.
I've noticed similar pattern with other tools, e.g. git. I've seen coworkers add all kinds off aliases to simplify git commands, and I'm very much against it since I prefer portability.
The portability aspect seems overstated, or perhaps your use cases are just different. I can already log in to any server with my custom configs; Ansible is what configures my user already, so I just have it dump out my configs. If I can access it, it has my configs.
Admittedly, it does get annoying when I'm sudo-ed to another user, but it's vanishingly rare for me that I am both sudo-ed to another user, and doing enough editing that I really want those configs. Usually a sudo-ed vi for me is just updating a couple lines in a config, I don't need a full config for that
How many times does one remote into a server and then spend significant amounts of time editing files? Usually I make small enough edits that I don’t miss my custom keymaps
