100% agree. I started over in 2022 or 2023 after 10 years of Vim cruft building up by moving to a Lua-based Neovim setup with Packer (now-unmaintained package manager). It was definitely an improvement, and I was impressed by how smooth and easy it was to get set up with a modern, fully-featured Neovim setup. However, I felt a little uneasy with all the packages needed to get a really good LSP setup without a ton of work (lsp-zero, lspconfig, etc).

Deleted my ~/.config/nvim/ directory the other day and started again just to see what the experience was like with modern Neovim capabilities, and it was so much easier!