Wait what?!

There's a file explorer now!

Just tried it now, it's not quite a file tree but it's almost as good.

I have been checking in with helix every 6 months to see if the plugin system was finalised so I could use a real file picker and actually navigate through and explore the files in my project.

That one thing has held me back from using helix. I'll probably give it another go for tiny projects where I don't need any plugins (e.g. in-line error annotations through LSPs, indent rainbow, in-editor color pickers, line sorters, etc...).