[pweissbrod]

I look at it differently. If vim is a useful tool in your daily workflow then it's probably worthwhile to invest time into customizing it and enhancing it with plugins.

The open source landscape of plug-in development is under constant evolution and it can be quite a time sink staying on top of the latest and best tooling.

I see SpaceVim as something similar to a Linux distribution. The maintainers offer the work of selecting various packages inversion combinations that harmonize into a consistent system.

And just like any Linux distribution you can agree or disagree with the packages they choose or the default configurations it comes with.

I end up using a somewhat heavily customized SpaceVim that I personally like but it's my opinion the distribution is a very productive foundation.