This is what Helix did right - putting essentials into the core. I'm still not sold on their editing model, even as someone new to modal editing and not encumbered by existing habits. The improvement is not that dramatic to justify abandoning the vim keymaps which you have in every editor. Also, it is missing features like debugger or git integration, so I will stick with Neovim for now. I do like, though, that they are choosing Scheme for extension language. That alone may convince me to switch in the future.
